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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) – Trailer & Where to Watch

Name: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Rating: 7.6

MOVIE ★ 7.6/10 2007 1h 52m DramaHistory

“Let your imagination set you free.”

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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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