The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Niels Arestrup, Isaach De Bankolé, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Emma de Caunes, Marina Hands, François Delaive

Director: Julian Schnabel

Rating: NR

Studio: Miramax Films

Release date: 2008

Synopsis:

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

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