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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Original title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007 1h 52m ★ 7.6/10 TMDB
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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.

Director
Julian Schnabel
Written by
Ronald Harwood
Production
France, United States of America
Release date
2007-05-23

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