The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

7.6

France

Drama History

112 min

2007

Gérard Watkins Michael Wincott Lenny Kravitz Anna Chyzh Ilze Bajare Marie Meyer Agathe de La Fontaine Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Zinedine Soualem Françoise Lebrun Anne Alvaro Talina Boyaci Fiorella Campanella Mathieu Amalric Jean-Philippe Écoffey Emma de Caunes Isaach De Bankolé Max von Sydow Marina Hands Jean-Pierre Cassel Niels Arestrup Patrick Chesnais Anne Consigny Marie-Josée Croze Emmanuelle Seigner

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.