![]() Jeremy Irons is perfect as Charles Swann, pale, deep-eyed, feverish with passion. In the most humiliating scenes in the movie, he abjectly follows her through the night, knocks on a door he hopes is hers, and stands in her boudoir while she nonchalantly disrobes and dresses for an appointment with another man.Ĭasting is everything in a film like this. In the elegant salons where ladies and gentlemen gather, Swann is not welcome if he brings along his Odette, but because he cannot be happy without her, this is no punishment. Proper society, of course, disapproves of his affair - and talks of nothing else. Because she is vulgar, because she lies, because she toys with his affection, and most particularly because she lets him smell the orchid in her bodice, she becomes the most important person in the world to him, and he throws his life and reputation at her feet. ![]() She is not the right woman for him, but her very wrongness becomes fascinating. Schlöndorff's "Swann in Love" - as opposed to Proust's - is the story of a pale young man who goes one day to visit a prostitute, and is actually indifferent to her until she stands him up. ![]()
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