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2007 • 1h 52min • PG-13 • Drama, History

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

"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.

IMDb 8.0

RT 94%

MC 92

Director

Julian Schnabel

Writer

Ronald Harwood

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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

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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

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