The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Let your imagination set you free.
2007-05-23 | 112 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Mathieu AmalricJean-Dominique Bauby
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Emmanuelle SeignerCéline Desmoulins
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Marie-Josée CrozeHenriette Durand
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Anne ConsignyClaude
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Patrick ChesnaisDr. Lepage
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Niels ArestrupRoussin
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Jean-Pierre CasselFather Lucien
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Marina HandsJoséphine
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Max von SydowPapinou
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Isaach de BankoléLaurent
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Emma de CaunesEmpress Eugenia
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Jean-Philippe ÉcoffeyDoctor Mercier
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Gérard WatkinsDoctor Cocheton
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Fiorella CampanellaCéleste
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Talina BoyaciHortense
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Anne AlvaroBetty
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Françoise LebrunMadame Bauby
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