The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

France and United States of America, 2007

Film

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The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

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Credits

producer

Jon Kilik

Kathleen Kennedy

Léonard Glowinski

production company

Pictanovo

Duration

01:52:00

Production dates
2007

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-2013

Language

French

Subject category

Drama

TMDB-Movie

2013

Wikidata

Q472600

Collected

71 times

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