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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Original title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

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2007 · PG-13 · 1h 52m

Directed by Julian Schnabel

7.6

TMDB audience score
1,338 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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