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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

7.6 112 mins Drama   History   2007
Pathé Renn Productions   France 3 Cinéma   The Kennedy/Marshall Company  
Director(s): Julian Schnabel

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.

Casts of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Mathieu Amalric

as Jean-Dominique Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner

as Céline Desmoulins

Marie-Josée Croze

as Henriette Durand

Anne Consigny

as Claude

Patrick Chesnais

as Dr. Lepage

Niels Arestrup

as Roussin

Olatz López Garmendia

as Marie Lopez

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Father Lucien

Marina Hands

as Joséphine

Max von Sydow

as Papinou

Isaach de Bankolé

as Laurent

Emma de Caunes

as Empress Eugenia

Jean-Philippe Écoffey

as Doctor Mercier

Gérard Watkins

as Doctor Cocheton

Nicolas Le Riche

as Ninjinski

Théo Sampaio

as Théophile

Fiorella Campanella

as Céleste

Talina Boyaci

as Hortense

Anne Alvaro

as Betty

Françoise Lebrun

as Madame Bauby

Zinedine Soualem

as Joubert

Marie Meyer

as Mannequin

Ilze Bajare

as Mannequin

Anna Chyzh

as Mannequin

Lenny Kravitz

as Himself

Michael Wincott

as Fashion Photographer

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