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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

  • PG-13
  • 1h 52m
  • ★ 7.6 (1,313 votes)

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.

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Cast

  • Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • Emmanuelle Seigner as Céline Desmoulins
  • Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Durand
  • Anne Consigny as Claude
  • Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage

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