102 Boulevard Haussmann

the street in Paris, France, Boulevard Haussmann May 2021 102boulevardhaussmannbbc.png Alan Bennett Udayan Prasad Alan Bates Janet McTeer Jonathan Coy Paul Rhys Celia Imrie The Delme String Quartet United Kingdom English Innes Lloyd Ken Pearce John Hooper 74 minutes BBC 1991 02 17 yes 102 Boulevard Haussmann is a 1990 British biographical drama film written by Alan Bennett and directed by Udayan Prasad. It is based on the life of French novelist Marcel Proust in 1916, during his residency at 102 Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, France. The film stars Alan Bates, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Coy, Paul Rhys and Celia Imrie. It was screened at the London Film Festival on 9 November 1990 and aired on BBC 2 on 17 February 1991.34th London Film Festival 27 Whittaker Sheila 1990The Times 16 February 1991 23 Sunday television and radio Prasad won a Golden Gate Award in Best of Category: Television Feature from the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the drama was also nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama. Plot Set in 1916 during World War I, Marcel Proust lives a nocturnal, closeted life in Paris, obsessed by his writing and looked after by his devoted housekeeper Céleste Albaret. Proust has sequestered himself to a bed in his sound proofed bedroom, where he is writing his latest work. On a rare visit to a concert, he becomes fascinated by the music of a string quartet, which includes a young viola player, Amable Massis, a war veteran who he befriends. He invites the musicians to play a private performance for him in his apartment, where they perform César Franck's Quartet in D. Proust invites the young Massis back to his apartment on numerous occasions to play for him, but Massis is unaware of the true nature of Proust's feelings towards him.102 Boulevard Haussmann https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/cv6zm4/screen-two/ Radio Times 5 May 2021 6 May 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205809/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/cv6zm4/screen-two/ dead Cast Alan Bates as Marcel Proust Janet McTeer as Céleste Albaret Paul Rhys as Amable Massis Jonathan Coy as Odilon Celia Imrie as Madame Massis Philip McGough as Dr. Bize Philip Rham as Gaston Poulet Peter Geeves as Louis Ruyssen Michael Wilcox as Victor Gentil Production notes thumb|Plaque at 102 Boulevard Haussmann, where Proust lived Director Udayan Prasad said the relationship between Proust and Céleste is portrayed in the film "like an old married couple", and the idea is that Céleste created the reclusive environment which enabled Proust to work. Prasad also revealed that the "script has its own reality", and we didn't pretend for the drama to be a "documentary about what Proust did in that short period of time". Writer Alan Bennett made the point in the script about wanting to "show people who are artistically engaged in the process of creativity as being barely human". Prasad described Alan Bates as engaging in a "sinister charm," that created a "Proust who is both dislocated from the outside world and in control of his own".102 Boulevard Haussmann http://www.alanbates.com/abarchive/tv/102.html Alan Bates Television Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194640/http://www.alanbates.com/abarchive/tv/102.html March 3, 2016 1991 dead Critical reception Elaine Paterson wrote in Time Out that the film is "absorbing and affecting. Its underlying musing on the nature of genius may be a meander up an intellectual cul-de-sac, but the cul-de-sac is beautifully shot, set in a space and time entirely of its own, and governed by two extraordinary characters". TV critic Kevin Thomas said writer Alan Bennett "tells of an incident in Proust's life that allows us to see the Proust-Celeste relationship from a different - and disturbing - angle". Thomas also questioned the motives of Celeste and Proust's physician (Philip McGough), after Proust begins courting the young viola player. Thomas wonders, "are they interested merely in protecting Proust's health? Or do they feel that Proust, as a homosexual, somehow has to be protected from himself? In any event, their actions are outrageous, and all the more so for not actually sparing Proust any pain".Thomas Kevin TV Review: Inside Proust's Paris and Vulnerable Heart https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-26-ca-327-story.html Los Angeles Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210505051639/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-26-ca-327-story.html May 5, 2021 November 26, 1991 live John J. O'Connor, said that Alan Bennett created an "extraordinarily complex universe, exploring with painstaking detail shifting relationships and subtle controls, esthetic theory and sexual obsessions, indeed life and art". He also praised Alan Bates as capturing "the underlying strength of the writer", and "lending enormous support is the music, performed by the Delmé String Quartet".O'Connor John J. John J. O'Connor (journalist) Reviews/Television; Reinventing the World and Obsessions of Proust https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/26/arts/reviews-television-reinventing-the-world-and-obsessions-of-proust.html The New York Times 26 November 1991 Sheila Whitaker of the San Francisco Film Society wrote that Alan Bennett "created a sympathetic and understated script", that is "dense with inflection and nuance rather than action, and the performances of Alan Bates as Proust and Janet McTeer as Celeste match Bennett's achievement". Director Udayan Prasad won a Golden Gate Award from the Film Festival.Whitaker Sheila 102 Boulevard Haussmann http://history.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=4&searchfield= San Francisco Film Society 2006 See also LGBTQ United Kingdom Céleste In Search of Lost Time Screen Two List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters References External links tt0101246 102 Boulevard Haussmann 102 Boulevard Haussmann at BFI Remembrance of Proust's past at The Independent Category:1990 television films Category:1990 films Category:1990 LGBTQ-related films Category:British television plays Category:English-language television plays Category:British LGBTQ-related television films Category:British LGBTQ-related television episodes Category:1991 television plays Category:1990 English-language films Category:Films directed by Udayan Prasad Category:1990 British films Category:Films about music and musicians Category:Films set in Paris Category:Films set in 1916 Category:English-language television films