Un Amour de Swann (eng subs) [1984] Jeremy Irons

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Un amour de Swann (1984)


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SUBTITILES IN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE

Swann in Love UK / USA
Eine Liebe von Swann West Germany
Enas erotas tou Swann Greece
Milosc Swanna Poland
Swann szerelme Hungary
Swannin rakkaus Finland
Um Amor de Swann Brazil
Un amore di Swann Italy

Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness.


Jeremy Irons ... Charles Swann
Ornella Muti ... Odette de Crecy
Alain Delon ... Baron de Charlus
Fanny Ardant ... Duchesse de Guermantes
Marie-Christine Barrault ... Madame Verdurin
Anne Bennent ... Chloe
Nathalie Juvet ... Madame Cottard
Charlotte Kerr ... Sous-maitresse
Catherine Lachens ... Aunt
Philippine Pascal ... Madame Gallardon
Charlotte de Turckheim ... Madame de Cambremer
Nicolas Baby ... Young Jew
Jean-François Balmer ... Dr. Cottard
Jacques Boudet ... Duke de Guermantes
Jean-Pierre Coffe ... Aime
Jean-Louis Richard ... Monsieur Verdurin
Bruno Thost ... Saniette
Geoffroy Tory ... Forcheville
Roland Topor ... Biche
Vincent Martin ... Remi
Marc Arian ... Swann's Valet
Pierre Celeyron ... Valet Pif
Romain Brémond ... Protocole Guermantes
Véronique Dietschy ... Mme Vinteuil
Ivry Gitlis ... Violoniste
Jean Aurenche ... Monsieur Vinteuil
Humbert Balsan ... Head of Protocol

In Swann in Love, Marcel Proust created a sort of blueprint for the rest of his Remembrances of Things Past with the story of a Parisian dandy, Charles Swann, who falls in love with and pursues a social-climbing demi-mondaine, Odette de Crecy. His passion becomes so obsessive and his jealousy so overpowering that he gradually cuts himself off from the brillliant high society circles - the time is the mid-1880s - that he has succeeded in penetrating, despite his Jewish origins.

Casting is everything in a film like this. Jeremy Irons is perfect as Charles Swann, pale, deep-eyed, feverish with passion. This was his third movie (after THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN and BETRAYAL) in which love seemed necessary to his nature. We can believe his passion. As Odette, Schlöndorff has cast Ornella Muti, who has a sort of languorous bemusement that is maddening: We wonder if she is even capable of understanding that the man before her is mad with love and desire, and then we realize, of course, that her very inability to care is what creates her fatal attraction.

SWANN IN LOVE is a stylish, period love story, surrounding its central characters with still other pathetic seekers of perfection (Alain Delon is wonderful as a gloomy homosexual who pursues an idealized form of misery). Yet at the film's end, we've probably learned nothing except that lovers were as silly in 1875 as they are now. Sillier, perhaps; they had more time.