Directed by : Julian SCHNABEL
Year of production : 2007 Country : FRANCE Length : 112 minutes
Award for Best Director , 2007
Vulcain Prize for an artist technician, awarded by the C.S.T. , 2007
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 com
© Etienne GEORGE
Julian SCHNABEL - Director
Ronald HARWOOD - Script / Dialogue
Janusz KAMINSKI - Cinematography
Laurent OTT - Set decorator
Juliette WELFLING - Film Editor
Paul CANTENON - Music
Jean-Paul MUGEL - Sound
Olatz LOPEZ GARMENDIA - Marie Lopez
Mathieu AMALRIC - Jean-Do
Anne CONSIGNY - Claude
Emmanuelle SEIGNER - Celine Desmoulins
Niels ARESTRUP - Roussin
Patrick CHESNAIS - Docteur Lepage
Film poster © DR
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