The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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.
Rating: 7.575 / 10
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
Crew
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Olivier Bériot - Costume Design
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Julian Schnabel - Director
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Francis Wargnier - Sound Designer
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François-Xavier Decraene - Line Producer
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Jim Lemley - Executive Producer
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