'A subtle, seamless, sumptuous meditation on Marcel Proust's unfilmable masterpiece... A feast of acting, writing, music and direction'
-THE ECONOMIST

'This spacious, beautifully acted, lovingly considered film is a must-see...
a remarkable piece of cinema'
-Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

'This hugely impressive movie...Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart
and John Malkovich are outstanding'
-Anthony Quinn, THE INDEPENDENT

'You come to feel the whole film itself to be a Proustian production: the camera becomes a force of memory, and you follow it into some living centre of the human imagination. Like all good films, this one helps you to see'
-Andrew O'Hagan, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Marie-France Pisier as a comically hysterical and beautifully aged Madame Verdurin... The unbelievably beautiful Emmanuelle Béart... The playing of the company brings forward the delicious social comedy of the book'
-THE NEW YORKER

"Raoul Ruiz has pulled off a cine-literary miracle... The film evokes the era and the people in it superbly... Star-studded... A great work... John Malkovich... superb'
-Alexander Walker, EVENING STANDARD

"Bewitching, beautifully performed"
-Gilbert Adair, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

"Intelligent, elegant...dazzling, exhilarating...
one of the few unmissable films now in distribution'
-Philip French, THE OBSERVER

"A luxury cast and sumptuous photography... A surprisingly faithful attention to the final volume of the Recherche, together with a distinctive panoply of visual tricks, create an adaptation Proustians will applaud'
-SIGHT AND SOUND

'An epic masterpiece'
-EMPIRE

"A great work... A cine-literary miracle ... See it and you feel you've read all of Proust's masterwork 'TIME REMEMBERED'
-Alexander Walker, EVENING STANDARD