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Time Regained (Temps retrouvé, Le)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An Official Selection at both the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, Raoul Ruiz's Time Regained performs the remarkable feat of bringing the work of Marcel Proust to the screen. With briIliant execution, Time Regained realizes the mixture of space and time, of image and memory, which fIows throughout Proust's muIti-volume "Remembrance of Things Past." Aided by an outstanding cast of international fiIm stars, incIuding Catherine Deneuve, John MaIkovich, EmmanueIIe Beart, and Vincent Perez, Ruiz has made a gIowing reverie on a passing age that both overwhelms and entertains.
Time Regained opens in 1922, as Proust is on his deathbed, Iooking through photos and remembering his life. GradualIy, we watch as his own experiences give way to the characters in his novel -- fiction ecIipses reality. Ruiz, with incredibIe visuaI dexterity, shows how the author's creations combine with his own experiences, Iike slides projected on to the wall of his room. Memories of the idyIIic days of the lost paradise that was Proust's childhood alternate with rich recoIlections of his life in fin de siecIe Parisian society. The drama of the Great War, examined in the context of spectacular soirees and grand parties, becomes in Ruiz's hands an elaborate comedy of manners.
ln Time Regained, Ruiz discovers the impossible--the intangibIe timelessness that was the object of Proust's novels, blending both the baroque and the surreal. The result is a montage of moving snapshots and feverish dreams that makes the film the uItimate in Proustian cinema, succeeding magnificently where other adaptations of his work have failed. Enriched by stellar performances, Time Regained is a "gorgeous, meticuIousIy crafted spectacle" that is presented here for the first time, in letterboxed format.
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