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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Cinemax 2
115 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
Françoise Lebrun ,
Azzedine Alaïa ,
Olatz López Garmendia ,
Anne Alvaro ,
Théo Sampaio ,
Mathieu Amalric ,
Emmanuelle Seigner ,
Marie Meyer ,
Marina Hands ,
Elvis Polanski ,
Ilze Bajare ,
Marie-Josée Croze ,
Talina Boyaci ,
Anna Chyzh ,
Hiam Abbass ,
François Delaive ,
Niels Arestrup ,
Lenny Kravitz ,
Fiorella Campanella ,
Jean-Philippe Écoffey ,
Isaach De Bankolé ,
Zinedine Soualem ,
Emma de Caunes ,
Jean-Pierre Cassel ,
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre ,
Anne Consigny ,
Sydow Max von ,
Gérard Watkins ,
Agathe de La Fontaine ,
Patrick Chesnais ,
Jean-Baptiste Mondino ,
Michael Wincott ,
Nicolas Le Riche