The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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.
Top Cast
Mathieu Amalric
As Jean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigner
As Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Croze
As Henriette Durand
Anne Consigny
As Claude
Patrick Chesnais
As Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrup
As Roussin
Olatz López Garmendia
As Marie Lopez
Jean-Pierre Cassel
As Father Lucien
Marina Hands
As Joséphine
Max von Sydow
As Papinou
Genres
Director
Julian Schnabel
Budget / Revenue
$14.0M / $19.8M
