Proust's prose is so much what makes the novel effective I thought any film version would fall flat, but some of the feel of the novel comes forth on the screen here (although not nearly enough). The downer was the rewriting of a classic (amazing how often that's done), changing the protagonist's name and his love life and his fate. When I read the film's title, I thought for sure his love interest would be Albertine, who's his main love interest in the novel. And to name the other extreme departures from the novel would be to write spoilers, so I'll just say they were disappointing. And how can they have no scene with a madeleine...?
Review of Swann in Love
