The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

Julian Schnabel Kathleen Kennedy Jon Kilik Ronald Harwood Janusz Kamiński Juliette Welfling Olivier Bériot Jean-Paul Mugel Léonard Glowinski Julian Schnabel Francis Wargnier Dominique Gaborieau Pierre Grunstein Jim Lemley Michel Eric Jean-Dominique Bauby Laurent Ott François-Xavier Decraene Paul Cantelon

Actors:

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 Jean-Philippe Écoffey Gérard Watkins Nicolas Le Riche Théo Sampaio Fiorella Campanella Talina Boyaci Anne Alvaro Françoise Lebrun Zinedine Soualem Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Agathe de La Fontaine

Genre:

Drama

Country: no data

Year: 2007

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 2007

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The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

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Tom Hiddleston

Actor

66 followers

100 FLIISTs

almost 5 years ago

It was first a piece of literature written by Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was the former French editor of Elle. And he suffers a kind of physical stroke, which paralyzes his entire body and the only muscle he can move is his left eyelid. And he essentially blinked a 120 page book. I thought how can you make a film about a man who is locked inside his own body and blinking? And Julian Schnabel achieved the impossible.

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Bradley Cooper

Actor, Director, Musician

136 followers

60 FLIISTs

5 years ago

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is just one of the best films ever made. The acting, the story, the conception visually. He’s just wonderful, the director, Julian Schnabel.

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