The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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.

Cast

Mathieu Amalric

Mathieu Amalric

as Jean-Dominique Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner

Emmanuelle Seigner

as Céline Desmoulins

Marie-Josée Croze

Marie-Josée Croze

as Henriette Durand

Anne Consigny

Anne Consigny

as Claude

Patrick Chesnais

Patrick Chesnais

as Dr. Lepage

Niels Arestrup

Niels Arestrup

as Roussin

Olatz López Garmendia

Olatz López Garmendia

as Marie Lopez

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Father Lucien

Marina Hands

Marina Hands

as Joséphine

Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow

as Papinou

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