The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Original title
- Le scaphandre et le papillon (Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 112 min.
- Country
France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Mathieu Amalric
- Emmanuelle Seigner
- Marie-Josée Croze
- Anne Consigny
- Patrick Chesnais
- Niels Arestrup
- Olatz Lopez Garmendia
- Max von Sydow
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Marina Hands
- Fiorella Campanella
- Talina Boyaci
- Gérard Watkins
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Disability. Based on a true story. Biography
- Synopsis
- 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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- Awards
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2007: 4 Nominations for Oscar: Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing2007: 2 Golden Globes: Best Foreign Language Film, Director. 3 Nominations2007: BAFTA Awards: Best Adap. Screenplay. Nominated for Best Foreign Languaje Film2007: Cannes Film Festival: Best Director, Technical Grand Prize. 3 Nominations2007: 2 Awards Cesar: Actor (Mathieu Amalric), Editing. 7 Nominations2007: National Board of Review: Best Foreign Language Picture
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 25 My Top 10 Movies from 2007 (215)
- 51 My Favorite French Movies (64)
- 98 My Favorite Movies from Europe & Latin America (29)
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