The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The dam...
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.
Mathieu Amalric
Marie-Josée Croze
Gérard Watkins
Max von Sydow
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Isaach de Bankolé
Emmanuelle Seigner
Genres: Drama, History
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
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Marie-Josée Croze
Henriette Durand
Gérard Watkins
Doctor Cocheton
Max von Sydow
Papinou
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Doctor Mercier
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Father Lucien
Isaach de Bankolé
Laurent
Emmanuelle Seigner
Céline Desmoulins
Olatz López Garmendia
Marie Lopez
Julian Schnabel
Director
Jim Lemley
Executive Producer
Emma de Caunes
Empress Eugenia
Zinedine Soualem
Joubert
Niels Arestrup
Roussin
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Diane
Pierre Grunstein
Executive Producer
Agathe de La Fontaine
Inès
Marina Hands
Joséphine
Anne Consigny
Claude
Talina Boyaci
Hortense
Françoise Lebrun
Madame Bauby
Fiorella Campanella
Céleste
Anne Alvaro
Betty
Patrick Chesnais
Dr. Lepage
Nicolas Le Riche
Ninjinski
Théo Sampaio
Théophile
Marie Meyer
Mannequin