The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
"Let your imagination set you free."
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.
Director
Julian Schnabel
Languages
French
Status
Released
Budget
$14,000,020
Box Office
$19,777,647
Who's In It
Mathieu Amalric
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigner
Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Croze
Henriette Durand
Anne Consigny
Claude
Patrick Chesnais
Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrup
Roussin
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Father Lucien
Marina Hands
Joséphine
Max von Sydow
Papinou
Isaach de Bankolé
Laurent
Emma de Caunes
Empress Eugenia
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Doctor Mercier
Gérard Watkins
Doctor Cocheton
Fiorella Campanella
Céleste
Talina Boyaci
Hortense
Anne Alvaro
Betty
Françoise Lebrun
Madame Bauby
Zinedine Soualem
Joubert
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Diane
Agathe de La Fontaine
Inès
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