Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé) [Region 2]
by Raoul Ruiz
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Actor: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Vincent PerezDirector: Raoul Ruiz
Writer: Raoul Ruiz
Producer: Leo Pescarolo
Producer: Massimo Ferrero
Producer: Paulo Branco
Producer: Philippe Saal
Writer: Gilles Taurand
Writer: Marcel Proust
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 169 minutes
Studio: Artificial Eye
DVD Reviews of Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé) [Region 2]
DVD Review: "Lost is of minor importance.The problem is finding oneself"
Summary: 5 Stars
Taking the concept of less is more ,writer-director Raoul Ruiz,has somehow summarized the 7 books of Proust's magnum opus,Remembrance of Things Past, into a 2.5 hour film.He does this by taking the last part,Time Regained, but also shooting episodes from earlier volumes of the novel.The film blends the life of Proust,the author,with that of his fictional alter ego,Marcel,the novel's narrator.Proust is on his death-bed in 1922,reciting his magnum opus to his house-keeper,'he's nearing the end' as another character says.As Proust looks at some old photographs, in his mind's eye he becomes his narrator Marcel(Mazzerella),a man of bourgeois origins,fascinated by the social elite of Paris.Marcel's reveries are shown in a kaleidoscopic sequence of short scenes where most of the film's major characters,settings and themes are introduced.He recalls the parties,friendships,love affairs and falling-outs that mark the years before and during WW 1.At a reception given by the Prince and Princess de Guermantes, awaiting the finish of a musical interlude,an upsurge of familiar sensations washes over him.These sensations, resembling the Madeleine incident of the opening pages,set off a great sunburst of memory reaching all the way back to his earliet childhood and his mother reading to him in Combray.
This extraordinary film gives the unwieldy novel a second order currency in our culture.The subject of the novel is involuntary memory,the aesthetic framing of desire,how far we can retrieve our past selves,how little we can control the people we love,and the rediscovery of a vocation to write,the refinding of his lost calling from his own erring life.Gilberte's giving him Goncourt's Journal reminds him of all the people he has come to know.
Ruiz captures the sensuous texture of the prose by turning the language of the novel into a pool of cinematic images which we go in and it carries us along.Using stunning cinematography and a star-studded cast(Malkovitch, Beart,Deneuve,Perez,Mazarella) the techniques used are strange camera angles,slow motion,dream-like sequences, images that fuse together,moving platforms,moving back and forth in time,to capture the twilight zone between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the novel takes place.The book begins with a man and then a boy not being able to get to sleep. The movie seems at first viewing to be so difficult. The primary reason for this is that the film, in imitation of involuntary memory, does not present events in chronological order.Also we may get the older and younger Marcel in the same scene, the mixing of real life characters with fictional ones.Recreating the timelessness of Proust's work,'Time Regained 'is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between the writer and his creations and is a truly stunning achievement.A creation independent of the novel.
Description of Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé) [Region 2]
[NON-U.S. FORMAT (PAL) Region 2 U.K. Import - This will not play on standard U.S./Canada DVD players or those from most other countries outside of Europe. You would need a "multi-region" or "region-free" PAL compatible DVD player or computer.] SYNOPSIS: Many filmmakers have attempted to bring Marcel Proust's monumental novel REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST to the screen and failed. With the Palme D'Or nominated TIME REGAINED, based largely on the final volume, Chilean director Raoul Ruiz accomplished the seemingly impossible, a highly successful adaptation which captured the essence of the work as never before. Opening with Proust dictating his memoirs as he lies on his deathbed, fragments of his life are recalled and presented with dreamlike complexity. Against a backdrop of lavish French high society in the early 20th century, the author recalls past loves, hopes, successes and failures, reality merging with fiction as memories are awakened. With an incredible cast led by Emmanuelle Beart, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich and Vincent Perez, TIME REGAINED is a remarkable cinematic achievement that won widespread appeal.Bestsellers in DVD
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