The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

French

8.0

♡ 30

94%

92%

Action

based on novel or book

Julian Schnabel Director

Michael Wincott as Fashion Photographer

Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Roi

Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Do

Max von Sydow as Papinou

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.