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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Let your imagination set you free.
1h 52m · Released · TMDB ★ 7.6 (1332)
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.
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup
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dying and deathbased on novel or bookwritingfemale lovereditor-in-chiefpsychological stressbased on true storypatientdisabledmedical dramapsychological drama
