The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2007-05-23
Runtime: 112 minutes
Director: Julian Schnabel
Budget: $14,000,020 USD
Revenue: $19,777,647 USD
Top Cast
- Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Emmanuelle Seigner as Céline Desmoulins
- Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Durand
- Anne Consigny as Claude
- Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage
- Niels Arestrup as Roussin
- Olatz López Garmendia as Marie Lopez
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as Father Lucien
- Marina Hands as Joséphine
- Max von Sydow as Papinou
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