The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007 · Drama, History · 112 min

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.

Mathieu Amalric

Emmanuelle Seigner

Marie-Josée Croze

Anne Consigny

Patrick Chesnais

Niels Arestrup

Olatz López Garmendia

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Marina Hands

Max von Sydow

Isaach de Bankolé

Emma de Caunes