Movie
PG-13
76%The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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DramaHistory
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
May 23, 2007112 minReleasedFR
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Studios
Pathé Renn Productions
FR
France 3 Cinéma
FR
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
US
