The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Release date: May 23, 2007

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.

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Jean-Dominique Bauby

CĂ©line Desmoulins

Henriette Durand

Claude

Dr. Lepage

Roussin

Marie Lopez

Father Lucien

Joséphine

Papinou

Laurent

Empress Eugenia

Doctor Mercier

Doctor Cocheton

Ninjinski

Théophile

CĂ©leste

Hortense

Betty

Madame Bauby

Joubert

Diane

Inès

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Himself

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