The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
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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.
- Released: 2007-05-23
- Runtime: 112 minutes
- Genre: Drama, History
- Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
- Director: Jon Kilik, Julian Schnabel, Janusz Kamiński, Francis Wargnier, Paul Cantelon
