The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

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112 min - Biography | Drama - 23 May 2007 (Belgium)

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Ratings: 8.1/10 from 45,675 users Metascore: 92/100
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The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Mathieu Amalric	...	Jean-Do
	Emmanuelle Seigner	...	Céline
	Marie-Josée Croze	...	Henriette Roi
	Anne Consigny	...	Claude
	Patrick Chesnais	...	Le Docteur Lepage
	Niels Arestrup	...	Roussin
	Olatz López Garmendia	...	Marie Lopez
	Jean-Pierre Cassel	...	Père Lucien et le Vendeur
	Marina Hands	...	Joséphine
	Max von Sydow	...	Papinou
	Gérard Watkins	...	Le Docteur Cocheton
	Théo Sampaio	...	Théophile
	Fiorella Campanella	...	Céleste
	Talina Boyaci	...	Hortense
	Isaach De Bankolé	...	Laurent

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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. Written by Anonymous

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Let your imagination set you free

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Biography | Drama

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexual content and some language See all certifications »

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Language:

French

Release Date:

23 May 2007 (Belgium) See more »

Also Known As:

El llanto de la mariposa See more »

Filming Locations:

Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France See more »

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

€13,473 (Belgium) (27 May 2007) (5 Screens)

Gross:

$5,990,075 (USA) (6 April 2008)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Kennedy/Marshall Company, The See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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Trivia

To familiarize himself with Bauby's sheltered existence, director Julian Schnabel made the movie in the same hospital where Bauby was treated, meeting many of the orderlies who had treated him. He also shot scenes on the same balcony where Bauby relaxed, and on the same nearby beach his family took him to. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: His good eye is his left, with the right eyeglass portion made opaque. But at his hospital birthday party, it is reversed. See more »

Quotes

Jean-Dominique Bauby: A poet once said, "Only a fool laughs when nothing's funny"
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Connections

References Singin' in the Rain (1952) See more »

Soundtracks

"Quatre cents coups"
Composed by Jean Constantin
from the film The 400 Blows
Written and directed by François Truffaut
¿ Les Films Du Carosse
With the kind authorization of MK2 See more »

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (original title)

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