Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)
Release Date: 2007-05-23
IMDB ID: tt0401383
Vote Average: 7.577 (1252 votes)
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.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric (Jean-Dominique Bauby), Emmanuelle Seigner (Céline Desmoulins), Marie-Josée Croze (Henriette Durand), Anne Consigny (Claude), Patrick Chesnais (Dr. Lepage), Niels Arestrup (Roussin),
Crew: Jon Kilik (Producer), Julian Schnabel (Director), Janusz Kamiński (Director of Photography), Francis Wargnier (Sound Designer), Paul Cantelon (Original Music Composer), Juliette Welfling (Editor),
Release Date: 2007-05-23
IMDB ID: tt0401383
Vote Average: 7.577 (1252 votes)
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.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric (Jean-Dominique Bauby), Emmanuelle Seigner (Céline Desmoulins), Marie-Josée Croze (Henriette Durand), Anne Consigny (Claude), Patrick Chesnais (Dr. Lepage), Niels Arestrup (Roussin),
Crew: Jon Kilik (Producer), Julian Schnabel (Director), Janusz Kamiński (Director of Photography), Francis Wargnier (Sound Designer), Paul Cantelon (Original Music Composer), Juliette Welfling (Editor),