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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
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Genre
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Drama,
Medical Drama.
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Year
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2007 |
Director
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Julian Schnabel.
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Actors
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Mathieu Amalric,
Emmanuelle Seigner,
Marie-Josée Croze,
Anne Consigny,
Patrick Chesnais,
Niels Arestrup,
Olatz Lopez Garmendia,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Marina Hands,
Gerard Watkins,
Theo Sampaio,
Fiorella Campanella,
Talina Boyaci,
Isaach de Bankolé,
Emma de Caunes,
Jean-Philippe Ecoffey,
Nicholas Le Riche,
Anne Alvaro,
Francoise Lebrun,
Zinedine Soualem,
Georges Roche,
Agathe de la Fontaine,
Yves-Marie Coppin,
François Delaive,
Franck Victor,
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre,
Daniel Lapostolle,
Philippe Roux,
Francis Filloux,
Elvis Polanski,
Max von Sydow,
Sara Seguela,
Vasile Negru,
Marie Meyer,
Ilze Bajare,
Anna Chyzh,
Antoine Breant,
Azzedine Alaia,
Michael Wincott,
Jean-Baptiste Mondino,
Lenny Kravitz,
Farida Khelfa.
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File
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Runtime: |
114:00 |
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dvd-rip |
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1464.32 Mb |
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Storyline:
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. |
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