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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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French Release Date : May 23rd, 2007
A film by : Julian SCHNABEL
With : Jean-Pierre CASSEL, Mathieu ALMARIC, Marie-Josée CROZE, Emmanuelle SEIGNER, Patrick CHESNAIS, Mathieu AMALRIC, Niels ARESTRUP, Anne CONSIGNY, Olatz LOPEZ GARMENDIA
Genre : Drama

Synopsis

On December 8, 1995 at 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, inventive and charismatic editor in chief of the magazine French Elle suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. His life was changed forever. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 days later to find himself the victim of locked-in syndrome—mentally alert but a prisoner inside of his own body - his only means of communicating with the outside world, the blinking of his left eye.

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Screenplay : Ronald HARWOOD
Production year : 2006
Nationality(ies) : France

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