The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Released on
Drama, History
•- Runtime
- 112 mins
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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.
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
- 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
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey
- Gérard Watkins
- Nicolas Le Riche
- Théo Sampaio
- Fiorella Campanella
- Talina Boyaci
- Anne Alvaro
- Françoise Lebrun
- Zinedine Soualem
- Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
- Agathe de La Fontaine
- Marie Meyer
- Ilze Bajare
- Anna Chyzh
- Lenny Kravitz
- Michael Wincott
Director
- Julian Schnabel
Producers
- Kathleen Kennedy
- Jon Kilik
Screenwriter
- Ronald Harwood
