The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

FrenchFilm2007112 minDrama, History★ 7.6/10

Let your imagination set you free.

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

Directed by

Julian Schnabel

Starring

Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze

Music

Paul Cantelon

Released

2007-05-23

Original title

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

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