The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

ORIGINAL TITLE

Le scaphandre et le papillon (Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

YEAR

2007

RUNNING TIME

112 min.

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COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

Julian Schnabel

SCREENWRITER

Ronald Harwood (Book: Jean-Dominique Bauby)

COMPOSER

Paul Cantelon

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Janusz Kaminski

CAST

Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Max von Sydow

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Pathé Renn Productions / France 3 Cinéma

OFFICIAL WEB

http://www.lescaphandre-lefilm.com/

AWARDS

2007: 4 Nominations for Oscar: Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing
2007: 2 Golden Globes: Best Movie, Director. 3 Nominations
2007: BAFTA Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay. 2 Nominations
2007: Cannes Film Festival: Best Director, Technical Grand Prize. 3 Nominations
2007: 2 Awards Cesar: Actor (Mathieu Amalric), Editing. 7 Nominations
2007: National Board of Review: Best Foreign Language Picture
2007: Los Angeles Film Critics Awards: Best Cinematography. Runner Up for Best Film

GENRE

Drama | Disability. Based on a true story

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. In these few bewildering moments, his life was forever changed. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 days later to find himself the victim of a rare locked-in syndrome - mentally alert but permanently deprived of movement and speech. Refusing to accept his fate, Bauby determined to escape the paralysis of his diving bell and free the butterflies of his dreams and imagination. The only way he could express his frustration, however, was by moving his left eye. These movements and blinking a code representing letters of the alphabet became his sole means of communication. Slowly -painstakingly- words, sentences, paragraphs and finally an affecting and life-affirming memoir emerged.

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