Movie
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
“Let your imagination set you free.”
DramaHistory
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.
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Details
- Directed by
- Julian Schnabel
- Released
- 23 May 2007
- Status
- Released
- Language
- French
- Studio
- Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma
- Budget
- $14,000,020
- Box office
- $19,777,647
- Votes
- 1,327 on TMDB
Cast
Mathieu AmalricJean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle SeignerCéline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée CrozeHenriette Durand
Anne ConsignyClaude
Patrick ChesnaisDr. Lepage
Niels ArestrupRoussin- OOlatz López GarmendiaMarie Lopez
Jean-Pierre CasselFather Lucien
Marina HandsJoséphine
Max von SydowPapinou
Isaach de BankoléLaurent
Emma de CaunesEmpress Eugenia
Jean-Philippe ÉcoffeyDoctor Mercier
Gérard WatkinsDoctor Cocheton
