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The Diving Bell and Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) [Sub: Eng]
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On December 8, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby - age forty-three and editor-in-chief of the world-famous fashion magazine Elle - was living the 'good life' to the extreme when he became the victim of a devastating cerebro-vascular accident that left him in a state of total paralysis, incapable of any verbal communication, in what is known in the medical community as 'locked-in syndrome.' His mental faculties totally intact as he lay motionless in his bed at the Marine Hospital of Berck-sur-Mer in northern France, Bauby learned to communicate with the outside world using his left eyelid, the only part of his body over which he still had any control. During the next fourteen months, using a communication code developed by his therapist and his publisher's assistant, who transcribed this code, Bauby was able to compose, letter by letter, a lyrical and heartbreaking memoir of his life struggle. Bauby died in 1997, two days after its publication.
On December 8, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby - age forty-three and editor-in-chief of the world-famous fashion magazine Elle - was living the 'good life' to the extreme when he became the victim of a devastating cerebro-vascular accident that left him in a state of total paralysis, incapable of any verbal communication, in what is known in the medical community as 'locked-in syndrome.' His mental faculties totally intact as he lay motionless in his bed at the Marine Hospital of Berck-sur-Mer in northern France, Bauby learned to communicate with the outside world using his left eyelid, the only part of his body over which he still had any control. During the next fourteen months, using a communication code developed by his therapist and his publisher's assistant, who transcribed this code, Bauby was able to compose, letter by letter, a lyrical and heartbreaking memoir of his life struggle. Bauby died in 1997, two days after its publication.
Actors:
Mathieu Amalric,
Emmanuelle Seigner,
Marie-Josée Croze,
Anne Consigny,
Patrick Chesnais,
Niels Arestrup,
Olatz López Garmendia
Mathieu Amalric
25 October 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Emmanuelle Seigner
22 June 1966, Paris, France
Marie-Josée Croze
23 February 1970, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Anne Consigny
25 May 1963, Alençon, Orne, France
Patrick Chesnais
March 18, 1947 in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Niels Arestrup
8 February 1949, Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Olatz López Garmendia
Director:
Julian Schnabel
Country:
France, United States
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