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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Drama History

Let your imagination set you free.

Release Date: 2007, May 23
Directors: Julian Schnabel
Countries: France, United States of America
Production: Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Cast: Max von Sydow, Isaach de Bankolé, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Watkins, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Wincott, Zinedine Soualem, Françoise Lebrun, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie Meyer, Marie-Josée Croze, Niels Arestrup

Overview:

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.

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