Jeremy Irons
Charles Swann
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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.
- (2.2K)
- Drama, Romance
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1984-02-23
The film's story follows an original treatment of Proust's story by theater and film director Peter Brook, who was originally going to make the movie, setting it as a day in the life of the aging and ill Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons), who looks back on his past life in flashbacks.
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.
The British star, Jeremy Irons, was an unexpected choice to play Swann, for instance, but Schlondorff believed he would bring a sense of outsider status that was appropriate for a character who, as a Jew in an anti-Semitic society, was also an outsider.
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Jeremy Irons
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...
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- Volker Schlöndorff
- R
- Jeremy Irons
Charles Swann : The memory of love helps me face death without fear. Charles Swann : To think that I wasted years of my life - that I wanted to die - that the love of my life - was a woman I didn't like - who wasn't my type.
Swann in Love. Volker Schlöndorff’s sumptuous adaptation of the first volume of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” stars Jeremy Irons as the appropriately named Charles Swann, a beautiful bachelor, majestic in manner, but prone to foul displays of emotion.
