The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Original title

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Directed by

Julian Schnabel

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 1,291 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man wakes up after a stroke unable to move or speak, able only to blink one eye. The film shows his inner life as he communicates and remembers his past from within his paralyzed body.

intimatecontemplativepoignantquietly devastatingvisually inventivesubjectiveslowresilient

What happens

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, the film depicts Bauby's life after he suffered a massive stroke that left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. Bauby is played by Mathieu Amalric. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, and the César Awards, and received four Oscar nominations. Several critics later listed it as one of the best films of its decade. It ranks 77th in BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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