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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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2007★ 7.6 · 1.3K1h 52mDramaHistory

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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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Max von Sydow
as Papinou

Michael Wincott
as Fashion Photographer

Lenny Kravitz
as Himself

Mathieu Amalric
as Jean-Dominique Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner
as Céline Desmoulins

Isaach de Bankolé
as Laurent

Emma de Caunes
as Empress Eugenia

Marie-Josée Croze
as Henriette Durand

Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Father Lucien

Anne Consigny
as Claude

Niels Arestrup
as Roussin

Zinedine Soualem
as Joubert

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Release date: 2007-05-23

Budget: $14,000,020

Revenue: $19,777,647

Runtime: 1h 52m

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