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Swann in Love (French: Un amour de Swann, German: Eine Liebe von Swann) is a 1984 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It is based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume novel sequence In Search of Lost Time, specifically a self-contained section of the first volume, the title of which typically translates as Swann's Way (1913). It was ...
Feb 23, 1984 · Swann in Love: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant. In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
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- Drama, Romance
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1984-02-23
A film adaptation of a Proust story about a man's obsession with a prostitute, starring Jeremy Irons and Ornella Muti. Roger Ebert praises the cast and the style, but finds the story repetitive and unoriginal.
In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrenders complacently to the torments of jealousy.
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 110 min
- 2
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 ...
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- Volker Schlöndorff
- R
- Jeremy Irons
Following a series of acclaimed German-language productions, director Volker Schlondorff tossed his hat into the prestigious realm of international art house productions with Swann in Love courtesy of Irons, his first English-speaking lead star.
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In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him. In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set.
