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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 23, 2007

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

76%

Original Title

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Production Companies

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

Director

Julian Schnabel

Budget

$14,000,020

Revenue

$19,777,647

Description

The true story of 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.