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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007Directed by Julian Schnabel1h 52m
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
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.
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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
- Isaach de Bankolé as Laurent
- Emma de Caunes as Empress Eugenia
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Doctor Mercier
- Gérard Watkins as Doctor Cocheton
- Nicolas Le Riche as Ninjinski
- Théo Sampaio as Théophile
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