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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Let your imagination set you free.
Let your imagination set you free.
Drama - 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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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.
Director:
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Julian Schnabel
Cast:
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Max von Sydow
,
Patrick Chesnais
,
Anne Consigny
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Marie-Josée Croze
,
Emmanuelle Seigner
,
Niels Arestrup
,
Jean-Pierre Cassel
,
Olatz López Garmendia
,
Marina Hands

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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
112 min
Release date:
23 May 2007
Country:
FR, US
Languages:
French
Budget:
$14,000,020
Revenue:
$19,777,647
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 68 wins & 107 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
It's a subject and a film that perfectly blends the tragic with the triumphant.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan 2008
fresh:
An exquisite metaphor for the redemptive power of cinema. Without an ounce of cheap sentiment, this true story is as profoundly moving and dreamily beautiful as any film in recent memory.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
14 Jan 2008
rotten:
Optimistically, Schnabel would like to fill such an ordeal with color, music and hot nurses. Wedding himself to Bauby's real trauma, though, seems beyond him.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
18 Jan 2008
fresh:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is one of the best movies of 2007, but I'd argue it's also the one most in tune with what this season of goodwill and tolerance is supposed to be all about.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
What's fascinating is that it is the very restrictions the story imposes on a director that allow Schnabel to turn it into such an eerie stunner of a movie.
– Bob Mondello,
NPR.org,
18 Oct 2008
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