
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Rating: 7.6/10
Duration: 112 min
Director(s): Julian Schnabel,
Description:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as Father Lucien
- Max von Sydow as Papinou
- Marina Hands as Joséphine
- Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Durand
- Niels Arestrup as Roussin
- Isaach de Bankolé as Laurent
- Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Emmanuelle Seigner as Céline Desmoulins
- Gérard Watkins as Doctor Cocheton
- Anne Consigny as Claude
- Emma de Caunes as Empress Eugenia
- Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Doctor Mercier
- Olatz López Garmendia as Marie Lopez
- Nicolas Le Riche as Ninjinski