The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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After a massive stroke leaves the editor of French Elle paralyzed, he dictates his memoir entirely by blinking his left eyelid.
Why watch: You see through a locked body. Staggeringly beautiful.
Cast
Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigner as Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Durand
Anne Consigny as Claude
Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrup as Roussin
Olatz López Garmendia as Marie Lopez
Jean-Pierre Cassel as Father Lucien
Marina Hands as Joséphine
Max von Sydow as Papinou
Isaach de Bankolé as Laurent
Emma de Caunes as Empress Eugenia
Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Doctor Mercier
Gérard Watkins as Doctor Cocheton
Nicolas Le Riche as Ninjinski
Crew
Julian Schnabel — Director
Ronald Harwood — Screenplay
Jean-Dominique Bauby — Book
Kathleen Kennedy — Producer
Jon Kilik — Producer
Pierre Grunstein — Executive Producer
Jim Lemley — Executive Producer
Gérard Moulévrier — Casting
Janusz Kamiński — Director of Photography
Juliette Welfling — Editor
Olivier Bériot — Costume Design
Paul Cantelon — Original Music Composer
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