2007PG-13· 112 min
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Scaphandre et le papillon, Le)
Let your imagination set you free.
Drama
7.6 / 10TMDB Score
Summary
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
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
Tags
adapted from:bookanti-Hollywoodappreciating lifebased on a bookbased on a true storybeautifulBechdel Test:Failbiomedical ethicscinematographycoma
