About this release
Atteint du « locked-in syndrome » après un accident vasculaire cérébral, le journaliste Jean-Dominique Bauby n’a d’autre possibilité pour communiquer que de cligner de l’oeil gauche. Il va apprendre ainsi à dicter des mots, des phrases, des pages entières, un livre dont il a mémorisé chaque phrase, reflet de son état d’esprit cynique, poétique, touchant…
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Disc 1
DVD
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
112 min
DramaHistory
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.
Credits
Director
Julian Schnabel
Writer
Ronald Harwood
Cast
Mathieu Amalricas Jean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigneras Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Crozeas Henriette Durand
Anne Consignyas Claude
Patrick Chesnaisas Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrupas Roussin
Olatz López Garmendiaas Marie Lopez
Jean-Pierre Casselas Father Lucien
Marina Handsas Joséphine
Max von Sydowas Papinou
Cinematographer
Janusz Kamiński
Composer
Paul Cantelon
Editor
Juliette Welfling
Producer
Kathleen Kennedy
Jon Kilik
Images
Release Details
- Packaging
- Keep Case
Catalogue Info
- Added by
- Matthew Simpson
- Date added
- July 27, 2026