The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

112 min

7.6

Ends at

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

Budget

$14,000,020

Genre

Drama, History

Director

Julian Schnabel

Country

France

Cast & Crew

Mathieu Amalric

Emmanuelle Seigner

Marie-Josée Croze

Anne Consigny

Patrick Chesnais

Niels Arestrup

Olatz López Garmendia

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Marina Hands

Max von Sydow

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

  • Mathieu Amalric

  • Emmanuelle Seigner

  • Marie-Josée Croze

  • Anne Consigny

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