Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film could have included a bigger appearance from Proust Barbie. According to actress Lucy Boynton, Barbie originally featured more scenes with the character, who was based ...

In a recently discovered video showing Marcel Proust at a wedding, he descends a staircase unaccompanied, speedily walking past the slower couples to his right. It is the first footage we ostensibly ...

Proust Barbie is responsible for one of the more esoteric gags in Barbie — and actress Lucy Boynton, who played her in the film, says she was originally intended to have a larger role in the movie. In ...

Greta Gerwig got away with a lot in her bold take on the iconic Mattel toy, but some jokes about the French literary giant were ultimately too weird. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” elevated a Mattel-produced ...

In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913–27), time is a fluid construct, an illusion. The seven-volume novel unravels the musings and recollections of an unnamed narrator for whom even the ...

Film has always turned to classic literature for inspiration, but rare is the film adaptation that dodges the Scylla and Charybdis of the trade: too much reverence leads to inert moviemaking, too ...