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Swann in Love
Original Title
Un Amour de Swann- Director: Volker Schlöndorff
- Writer: Peter Brook; Jean-Claude Carrière
- Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf; Margaret Ménégoz
CGiii Comment
Adapting Proust - not an easy task, both visually and literally.
And...this lavish production does not disappoint.
However, it only scratches at the surface.
An expensive and ambitious project...that satisfies, partly.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness.
Cast & Characters
Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann;
Ornella Muti as Odette de Crecy;
Alain Delon as Baron de Charlus;
Fanny Ardant as Duchesse de Guermantes;
Marie-Christine Barrault as Madame Verdurin;
Anne Bennent as Chloe;
Nathalie Juvet as Madame Cottard;
Charlotte Kerr as Sous-maitresse;
Catherine Lachens as Aunt;
Philippine Pascal as Madame Gallardon;
Charlotte de Turckheim as Madame de Cambremer;
Nicolas Baby as Young Jew;
Jean-Francois Balmer as Dr. Cottard;
Jacques Boudet as Duke de Guermantes;
Jean-Pierre Coffe as Aime