The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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.

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  Mathieu Amalric

  Jean-Dominique Bauby
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  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Céline Desmoulins
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  Marie-Josée Croze

  Henriette Durand
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  Anne Consigny

  Claude
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  Patrick Chesnais

  Dr. Lepage
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  Niels Arestrup

  Roussin
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  Jean-Pierre Cassel

  Father Lucien
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  Marina Hands

  Joséphine
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  Max von Sydow

  Papinou
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  Isaach de Bankolé

  Laurent