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LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON

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Directed by :: Julian SCHNABEL

Country:: FRANCE

Year:: 2007

Duration:: 112.00 minutes

Award for Best Director, 2007
Vulcain Prize for an artist technician, awarded by the C.S.T., 2007

Synopsis

At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. In these few bewildering moments, his life was forever changed. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 days later to find himself the victim of a rare locked-in syndrome - mentally alert but permanently deprived of movement and speech.
Refusing to accept his fate, Bauby determined to escape the paralysis of his diving bell and free the butterflies of his dreams and imagination. The only way he could express his frustration, however, was by moving his left eye. These movements and blinking a code representing letters of the alphabet became his sole means of communication. Slowly -painstakingly- words, sentences, paragraphs and finally an affecting and life-affirming memoir emerged.

Press kit download (PDF)

in French

Julian SCHNABEL

Credits

Julian SCHNABEL - Director
Ronald HARWOOD - Screenplay
Janusz KAMINSKI - Cinematography
Laurent OTT - Set Designer
Paul CANTENON - Music
Juliette WELFLING - Film Editor
Jean-Paul MUGEL - Sound

Actors

Mathieu AMALRIC - Jean-Do
Niels ARESTRUP - Roussin
Patrick CHESNAIS - Docteur Lepage
Anne CONSIGNY - Claude
Marie-Josée CROZE - Henriette Roi
Olatz LOPEZ GARMENDIA - Marie Lopez
Emmanuelle SEIGNER - Celine Desmoulins

Contacts and useful links

Production

PATHE RENN PRODUCTION - 10, RUE LINCOLN 75008 PARIS - T : +33 (0)1 40 76 94 32 - natasha.maximov@pathe.com CRRAV (FRANCE) FRANCE 3 CINEMA (FRANCE)

Distribution

PATHE DISTRIBUTION - T : +33 (0)1 40 76 91 00 - natasha.maximov@pathe.com

French press

MOTEUR ! DOMINIQUE SEGALL - Astrid Gavard - 06 09 68 29 97 - T : +33 (0)1 42 56 95 95 - F : +33 (0)1 42 56 03 05 - moteur@maiko.fr

International press

PREMIER PR - Liz Miller - T : 04 93 99 03 02 - liz.miller@premierpr.com - www.premierpr.com

Foreign sales

PATHE DISTRIBUTION LTD - T : +44 20 7462 4427 - mike.runagall@pathe-uk.com