More than a film adaptation of Proust, a cinematographically Proustian film.

Full Review | May 3, 2022

Ruiz's surreal, allusive approach weaves together more of the novel's themes and plot strands than you would have thought possible. For those not expecting a straightforward, linear narrative, Time Regained is as delicious as a Madeleine dipped in tea.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2020

The best moment in the film is not in fact from Time Regained, but is the best moment in my favorite of the books, volume five, The Captive.

Full Review | Jul 5, 2018

...he envisaged Proustian time not as a private sensation, but as a fully external, physical and objective "dimension"...This is what makes his Time Regained both hallucinatory and concrete, wayward and exact.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2018

The stream-of-consciousness structure effectively captures a mind lost in thought; what it doesn't effectively create, however, is drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2010

Glacial.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2005

A crashing bore.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2005

Moody, opulent, and just decadent enough, Ruiz's film is elegant all over and perverse around the edges, just as it should be.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

Inventive and astounding.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2002

A film that captures the richness of Proust's writing and the peculiarity of his sensibility through an array of unlikely imagery and staging techniques.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 10, 2001

The best way to experience Time Regained is to let each vignette become an oar for rowing across the sea of Proust's memories.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2001

Ruiz gracefully weaves through flashbacks triggered by sights, sounds, and thoughts, effortlessly ricocheting from remembrance to remembrance.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Mar 28, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

In a Ruiz film one must expect a work that is obscure and mysterious.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000