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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Let your imagination set you free.

20071h 52mPG-13 7.6/ 10

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.

Cast

  • Mathieu AmalricJean-Dominique Bauby
  • Emmanuelle SeignerCéline Desmoulins
  • Marie-Josée CrozeHenriette Durand
  • Anne ConsignyClaude
  • Patrick ChesnaisDr. Lepage
  • Niels ArestrupRoussin
  • O
    Olatz López GarmendiaMarie Lopez
  • Jean-Pierre CasselFather Lucien
  • Marina HandsJoséphine
  • Max von SydowPapinou
  • Isaach de BankoléLaurent
  • Emma de CaunesEmpress Eugenia
  • Jean-Philippe ÉcoffeyDoctor Mercier
  • Gérard WatkinsDoctor Cocheton
  • N
    Nicolas Le RicheNinjinski
  • T
    Théo SampaioThéophile

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