The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
23/05/2007
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.
Movie Information
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
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
as Diane
Agathe de La Fontaine
as Inès
Marie Meyer
as Mannequin
Ilze Bajare
as Mannequin
Anna Chyzh
as Mannequin
Lenny Kravitz
as Himself
Michael Wincott
as Fashion Photographer
