Le Monde de Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time, this immense novel, a book about time and memory, has itself become, for us living a century after its author's death, an object of remembrance—a work that contains time itself: the time of a period situated between the 1880s and the Great War. By juxtaposing numerous photographs and films produced during the Belle Époque with the voice of Céleste Albaret and readings of carefully selected excerpts, Thierry Thomas retraces the steps of the writer who died nearly a century ago, on November 18, 1922, in search of this "lost time" that he so masterfully rescued from oblivion. Strolling through the Parisian Madeleine district, along the Cabourg promenade, and even his childhood retreat near Chartres, renamed Illiers-Combray in his honor, this film immerses the viewer in a bygone era, bringing to life the literary icon who ultimately came to embody him in our collective imagination. Director: Thierry Thomas