Time Regained, Trailer, New Release

A new restoration of Raul Ruiz s Time Regained opens at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on February 9: Ruizs most ambitious literary adaptationan attempt to condense all of Prousts In Search of Lost Time into a single feature, using the sevenpart novels last installment as a kind of frameis also one of his lushest, most transporting reflections on the movies power to seize and preserve moments of time. Prousts narrator, Marcel (Marcello Mazzarella), is a consistent presence in the movie, but Time Regained is dominated by entrancing, sometimes tragic figures that seem to drift in and out of the films field of view: Catherine Deneuve as the stately former courtesan Odette de Crecy; Emmanuelle Béart as Marcels young love Gilberte; John Malkovich as the closeted, mysterious Baron de Charlus. Ruiz gives special attention to Prousts fascination with photography and early forms of radio and cinematechnologies that promised a more perfect form of time r