Alain de Botton
Birthday: Born in 1969-12-20 in Zurich, Switzerland
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Skavlan
Character: Self - Guest
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway...
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
Character: Himself
Alain de Botton's psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded....
The Perfect Home
Character: self
The Perfect Home is a television series of three 42 minute episodes commissioned for Channel 4 based on the book The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton which first aired in 2006. In the programmes, Alain de Botton explored the importance of innovative architecture for homes. He offered criticism of modern developments that build in an idealized fake heritage style, which he referred to as pastiche, often referring back to the example of Great Notley Garden Village near Braintree, Esse...
Movie Credits
Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
Character: Self
The history of still life painting with oil paints...
Status Anxiety
Character: Himself
Social status in a capitalistic society is a major factor in how people live their lives. This social status greatly revolves around a person’s financial status. This film examines how the quest to move up the social ladder has brought untold depression and anxieties about ones self....
The Perfect Home
Character:
Based on Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness....
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Character: Self
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work....
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Character: narrator
The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board....