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.
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Genre: Drama, History
Runtime: 112 minutes
Release Date: 2007-05-23
Language: French
Country of Origin: France
Rating: 7.6/10
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, Isaach de Bankolé, Emma de Caunes
Director: Julian Schnabel
Producer: Jon Kilik, Kathleen Kennedy, Pierre Grunstein, François-Xavier Decraene, Jim Lemley, Léonard Glowinski
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