Swann in Love (film)
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Running time 1h 50m | Director Volker Schlondorff Initial DVD release June 8, 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Peter Brook , Jean-Claude Carriere , Marie-Helene Estienne , Marcel Proust , Volker Schlondorff Initial release February 23, 1984 (France) Music director Hans Werner Henze, David Graham, Marcel Wengler, Gerd Kuhr Cast Ornella Muti (Odette de Crecy), Alain Delon (Baron de Charlus), Jeremy Irons (Charles Swann), Fanny Ardant (Oriane de Guermantes), Anne Bennent (Chloe)Similar movies Jean-Claude Carriere wrote the screenplay for Swann in Love and Beauty of the Day | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette (Ornella Muti). His overwhelming desire for her comes, in part, from Odettes complete disinterest in him. When he finally weds her, utterly compromising himself in high society, he finds to his horror that his love for her was a complete illusion. At the same time, the Baron de Charlus (Alain Delon) pursues his own ill-advised romance.
Swann in Love (French: , German: ), is a 1984 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlondorff. It is based on volume 1 of Marcel Prousts 1919 novel In Search of Lost Time, typically translated as Swanns Way. It was nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.
Plot
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She seems to enjoy his company, for which he pays, but considers herself free to socialise and sleep where she pleases, particularly with a rival called de Forcheville. Swann’s passion turns to consuming jealousy, which leads him eventually to accept the social stigma of marrying her. One old friend, the overtly gay Charlus (Alain Delon), stays sympathetic.