The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007·112'

Julian Schnabel

DramaHistory

FR - French

Letterboxd TMDB #2013

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

Olatz López Garmendia Marie Lopez Jean-Pierre Cassel Father Lucien Marina Hands Joséphine Max von Sydow Papinou Isaach de Bankolé Laurent Emma de Caunes Empress Eugenia