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.
Cast
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Mathieu Amalric
Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Emmanuelle Seigner
Céline Desmoulins
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Marie-Josée Croze
Henriette Durand
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Anne Consigny
Claude
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Patrick Chesnais
Dr. Lepage
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Niels Arestrup
Roussin
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Olatz López Garmendia
Marie Lopez
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
Father Lucien
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Marina Hands
Joséphine
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Max von Sydow
Papinou
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Isaach de Bankolé
Laurent
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Emma de Caunes
Empress Eugenia
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Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Doctor Mercier
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Gérard Watkins
Doctor Cocheton
