Film · Drama, History
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
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.
- Director
- Julian Schnabel
- Writers
- Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- May 23, 2007
- Original title
- Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
Cast
Mathieu AmalricJean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle SeignerCéline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée CrozeHenriette Durand
Anne ConsignyClaude
Patrick ChesnaisDr. Lepage
Niels ArestrupRoussin- Olatz López GarmendiaMarie Lopez
Jean-Pierre CasselFather Lucien
Marina HandsJoséphine
Max von SydowPapinou
Isaach de BankoléLaurent
Emma de CaunesEmpress Eugenia
Jean-Philippe ÉcoffeyDoctor Mercier
Gérard WatkinsDoctor Cocheton- Nicolas Le RicheNinjinski
- Théo SampaioThéophile
Fiorella CampanellaCéleste
Talina BoyaciHortense
Anne AlvaroBetty
Françoise LebrunMadame Bauby
