Céleste
1980 [GERMAN]
Action / Biography / Drama / History
80%
AUDIENCE
6.8/10
316
Plot summary
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.
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Movie Reviews
One of my favorite art house movies finally
in profound sense, just beautiful
It is a film deserving be loved. For acting, atmosphere, for each detail, from clothes to furniture, for dialogue and for the fragrance of melancholia.
But, more important, for be the expected slow paced movie.
Because it is a film about Marcel Proust in his last years of life. The tone is imposible to be more energetic and the details more significant. And this makes the performance of Jurgen Arndt a beautiful surprise and for this motif the beautiful work of. Eva Mattes as Celeste is just moving .
Maybe, it is one of films for connaisaires and for the viewers expecting discover it. And the precious gift is to be one of seeds for a profound special state of heart..