
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.
- Year: 2007
- Country: France, United States of America
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
- Keyword: dying and death, based on novel or book, writing, female lover, editor-in-chief, psychological stress, patient, disabled
- Director: Julian Schnabel
- Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup