The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007Original title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
“Let your imagination set you free.”
1h 52mDramaHistory
3.8
1,322 ratingsSynopsis
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.
- Director
- Julian Schnabel
- Languages
- French
- Cast
- Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow