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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Release Date:November 30, 2007

Running Time:112 min

Genres:Drama, History

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Cast

Mathieu Amalric Emmanuelle Seigner Marie-Josée Croze Anne Consigny Patrick Chesnais Niels Arestrup Olatz López Garmendia Jean-Pierre Cassel Marina Hands Max von Sydow Isaach de Bankolé Emma de Caunes

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Synopsis

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.

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