The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (2007)

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8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Julian Schnabel

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Mathieu Amalric
Jean-Do

Emmanuelle Seigner
Céline

Marie-Josée Croze
Henriette Roi

Anne Consigny
Claude

Patrick Chesnais
Le Docteur Lepage

Niels Arestrup
Roussin

Olatz Lopez Garmendia
Marie Lopez

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Père Lucien et le Vendeur

Written by

Ronald Harwood
(screenplay)

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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A stunning film!

15 years, 8 months ago at Aug 28 10:58

PvtCaboose91

6 votes

"Other than my eye, two things aren't paralysed. My imagination...and my memory. They're the only two ways I can escape from my diving bell." - Jean-Dominique Bauby

Le Scaphandre et le papillon (in English, the title translates to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is a masterful, ethereal, beautiful cinematic composition based on the unbearably poignant memoirs of French magazine e... read more

A beautiful moving transition...

15 years, 8 months ago at Aug 28 23:19

Lexi

4 votes

''I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.''

The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

Mathieu Amalric: Jean-Dominique 'Jean-Do' Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner: Célin... read more

A great movie

13 years, 3 months ago at Jan 29 19:08

johanlefourbe

4 votes

I know, sometimes, my ratings are rather harsh but after watching more than 5000 movies, it is not very often that I’m truly amazed by something new. And, yet, sometimes, it does happen and, as a result, I keep watching movies after movies hoping to get again this great feelings I got when I was a teenager discovering the classics. Well, this movie was basically one of those extroardinary gems a... read more

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Description: Forty-three-year-old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are intact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including Céline Desmoulins, ... (more)

Release date: 1 February 2008

Tags: Drama (18), Biography (16), 2007 (15), France (14), 2000s (13), Paralysis (8), Locked In Syndrome (8), Stroke (7), French (6), Hospital (6), Memoir (5), Based On Novel (5), Biopic (4), Based On Book (4), Blink (4), (4), Eye (3), Fantasy Sequence (3), Death Wish (3), Death (2)

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