Celeste

Duration: 107 mi

Year Published: 1981

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Based on the memoirs of Celeste Albaret, this film is the story of the simple country girl who met the author Marcel Proust as the wife of his favorite taxi-driver and remained to tend him single-handedly through the last nine years of his life. Celeste was his cook, companion, secretary, friend and surrogate mother during the creation of Remembrance of Things Past. The film comes close to being Proustian in its attention to details of sound, light and movement as well as to the rituals of a prescribed daily routine. Virtually the entire film takes place inside Proust's apartment and the cork-lined room where the author slept during the day and worked on his manuscripts at night. (Circulates)

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