The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Directed by Julian Schnabel

Written by Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby

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

Emmanuelle Seigner

Céline Desmoulins

Marie-Josée Croze

Henriette Durand

Anne Consigny

Claude

Patrick Chesnais

Dr. Lepage

Niels Arestrup

Roussin

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Olatz López Garmendia

Marie Lopez

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Father Lucien

Marina Hands

Joséphine

Max von Sydow

Papinou

Isaach de Bankolé

Laurent

Emma de Caunes

Empress Eugenia