The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

April 28, 2008

(France) Rated PG
112 minutes

A Special Presentation at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival® and winner of the best director prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is the beautiful adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby‘s affecting, revelatory memoir. Once a successful fashion editor and carefree womanizer, Bauby awoke one day to find himself a prisoner in his own body. He had been paralyzed by a massive stroke that rendered him powerless to move a muscle – except his left eyelid.

Bauby‘s nurses develop an ingenious, if exhausting method of communication, through which he painstakingly writes his memoirs. By listening to the letters of the alphabet and blinking when the correct one is uttered, he is able to preserve his final link to the outside world – the winking butterfly that frees him from the diving bell of his broken body.

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