Time Regained

An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcelo Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is ...more

As Time Regained rolled out to theaters, two schools of thought emerged, one arguing that it would be best enjoyed by those with no knowledge of Marcel Proust the other holding that only Proust scholars could possibly appreciate it. Chances are that Proust scholars will find in it only a different variety of inscrutability than neophytes. There's really no translating Proust, and if there were, most would not do so by jumping into the final volume of -Remembrance of Things Past, but with Time ...more