The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 • Drama | History
Julian Schnabel
Director
Status
Released
Release date
May 23, 2007
Duration
112 Min
Language
fr
Popularity
2.22
Budget
$14,000,020
Revenue
$19,777,647
Overview
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
Mathieu Amalric
Emmanuelle Seigner
Marie-Josée Croze
Anne Consigny
Patrick Chesnais
Niels Arestrup
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Marina Hands
Max von Sydow
Isaach de Bankolé
Emma de Caunes
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Gérard Watkins
Fiorella Campanella
Talina Boyaci
Anne Alvaro
Françoise Lebrun
Zinedine Soualem
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Agathe de La Fontaine
Marie Meyer
Ilze Bajare
Anna Chyzh
Lenny Kravitz
Michael Wincott
