
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Let your imagination set you free.
2007 fr 112 minutes
Rating: 7.578
Plot
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
Jean-Dominique Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner
Céline Desmoulins

Marie-Josée Croze
Henriette Durand

Anne Consigny
Claude

Patrick Chesnais
Dr. Lepage

Niels Arestrup
Roussin

Olatz López Garmendia
Marie Lopez

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Father Lucien

Marina Hands
Joséphine

Max von Sydow
Papinou

Isaach de Bankolé
Laurent

Emma de Caunes
Empress Eugenia

Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Doctor Mercier

Gérard Watkins
Doctor Cocheton

Nicolas Le Riche
Ninjinski

Théo Sampaio
Théophile

Fiorella Campanella
Céleste

Talina Boyaci
Hortense

Anne Alvaro
Betty

Françoise Lebrun
Madame Bauby

Zinedine Soualem
Joubert

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Diane

Agathe de La Fontaine
Inès

Marie Meyer
Mannequin

Ilze Bajare
Mannequin

Anna Chyzh
Mannequin

Lenny Kravitz
Himself

Michael Wincott
Fashion Photographer