When the forty-three year-old editor of Elle Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) awakes in the Berck-sur-Mer hospital, he sooner discovers that he had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) that caused a Locked-in syndrome; therefore his body is entirely paralyzed except for one of his eyes. Perfect lucid with memoirs and imagination, the first impulse of Jean-Do was to wish to die. However, with the support of his physiotherapist Henriette Roi (Marie-Josée Croze), who has developed a mean of communication using the blink of his eye to associate to letters, Jean-Do decides to write a book using his memoirs and imagination.
Yesterday when I saw "Le Scaphandre et le Papillon" on DVD, I loved this movie a lot, but I did not know that it was the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby. What an amazing biography! The screenplay and the direction are fantastic, deserving the nominations to the Oscar. I was expecting to see a sad and depressing feature, like for example, "Johnny Got His Gun "; however the writer Ronald Harwood made an uplifted and positive story despite of the theme. The cast has also stunning performances in this highly recommended movie. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "O Escafandro e a Borboleta" ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly")
Yesterday when I saw "Le Scaphandre et le Papillon" on DVD, I loved this movie a lot, but I did not know that it was the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby. What an amazing biography! The screenplay and the direction are fantastic, deserving the nominations to the Oscar. I was expecting to see a sad and depressing feature, like for example, "Johnny Got His Gun "; however the writer Ronald Harwood made an uplifted and positive story despite of the theme. The cast has also stunning performances in this highly recommended movie. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "O Escafandro e a Borboleta" ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly")