Jean-Dominique Bauby
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a 2007 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Ronald Harwood. Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir of the same name, the film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition known as ...
Feb 1, 2008 · The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Directed by Julian Schnabel. With Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny. The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
- (111K)
- Biography, Drama
- Julian Schnabel
- 2008-02-01
Feb 9, 2016 · The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered a stroke in 1995 that rendered him mute and almost completely paralyzed this adaptation is from Bauby's...
- 2 min
- 178.2K
- Miramax
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (original French title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a memoir by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes his life before and after a massive stroke left him with locked-in syndrome .
Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a disturbing but inspiring story of resilience and the power of the human spirit, a film that never stoops to maudlin and manipulative...
- (177)
- Julian Schnabel
- PG-13
- Mathieu Amalric
In a beautiful metaphor, we see a diving bell which physically imprisons the patient, and the freeing of his imagination in the form of a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and fluttering among fields of flowers.
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is a film about a man who experiences the catastrophe I most feared during my recent surgeries: "locked-in syndrome," where he is alive and conscious but unable to communicate with the world.
