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The Diving Bell and Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) [Sub: Eng]
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The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Scaphandre et la Papillon), then in Jean-Jacques Beineix's half-hour 1997 documentary of Bauby at work, released under the same title, and, ten years after that, in this Cannes-selected docudrama, helmed by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) and adapted from the memoir by Ronald Harwood (Cromwell). The Schnabel/Harwood picture follows Bauby's story to the letter -- his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of 'diving bell' for Bauby -- one with no means of escape. With the editor's mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the 'butterfly' of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby's physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world: ocular activity. By moving his eyes and blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but -- astonishingly -- authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet. In Schnabel's picture, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby; the film co-stars Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, and Patrick Chesnais.
The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Scaphandre et la Papillon), then in Jean-Jacques Beineix's half-hour 1997 documentary of Bauby at work, released under the same title, and, ten years after that, in this Cannes-selected docudrama, helmed by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) and adapted from the memoir by Ronald Harwood (Cromwell). The Schnabel/Harwood picture follows Bauby's story to the letter -- his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of 'diving bell' for Bauby -- one with no means of escape. With the editor's mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the 'butterfly' of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby's physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world: ocular activity. By moving his eyes and blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but -- astonishingly -- authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet. In Schnabel's picture, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby; the film co-stars Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, and Patrick Chesnais.
Actors:
Mathieu Amalric,
Emmanuelle Seigner,
Marie-Josée Croze,
Anne Consigny,
Patrick Chesnais,
Niels Arestrup,
Olatz López Garmendia
Mathieu Amalric
25 October 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Emmanuelle Seigner
22 June 1966, Paris, France
Marie-Josée Croze
23 February 1970, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Anne Consigny
25 May 1963, Alençon, Orne, France
Patrick Chesnais
March 18, 1947 in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Niels Arestrup
8 February 1949, Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Olatz López Garmendia
Director:
Julian Schnabel
Country:
France, United States
Keywords:
#Anne Consigny #Emmanuelle Seigner #Julian Schnabel #Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) #Marie-Josée Croze #Mathieu Amalric #The Diving Bell and Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
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