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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Cinemax
110 minutes
2007
Biography
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Drama
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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2007
Biography
/
Drama
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.
Creators
Julian Schnabel,
Ronald Harwood
Cast
Emma de Caunes ,
Zinedine Soualem ,
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre ,
Jean-Pierre Cassel ,
Sydow Max von ,
Anne Consigny ,
Agathe de La Fontaine ,
Gérard Watkins ,
Jean-Baptiste Mondino ,
Patrick Chesnais ,
Nicolas Le Riche ,
Michael Wincott ,
Azzedine Alaïa ,
Françoise Lebrun ,
Olatz López Garmendia ,
Théo Sampaio ,
Anne Alvaro ,
Marie Meyer ,
Mathieu Amalric ,
Emmanuelle Seigner ,
Ilze Bajare ,
Marina Hands ,
Elvis Polanski ,
Anna Chyzh ,
Marie-Josée Croze ,
Talina Boyaci ,
Hiam Abbass ,
François Delaive ,
Niels Arestrup ,
Lenny Kravitz ,
Fiorella Campanella ,
Jean-Philippe Écoffey ,
Isaach De Bankolé