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Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is the remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a successful and charismatic editor-in-chief of FrenchElle, who believes he is living his life to its absolute...( read more
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''I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.''
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left ey...( read more)
I have a soft spot for inspirational true stories, especially ones with meaningful dialog between fathers and sons. A terrific story of reflection, regret and reconciliation.
The diving bell and the butterfly is one of my favourite books so I was really concerned when I heard that they were making it into a film. My concerns soon disappeared within the first few minutes, the brilliant use of first person camera really set the scene and tone and gave a...( read more)
Fascinating story that makes you want to go do stuff before all you can move is your eyelid. It was hard to look at his creepy broken vein eyeball, but well worth it.
Surprisingly excellent film about a man who suffers a sudden stroke and decides, during rehabilitation to "write" a book about his life with the help of his speech therapist. All this despite being paralyzed, mute and blind in one eye. It goes back-and-forth between his rehab and...( read more)
This is an inspiring movie that will make you, literally, look at what your life is and change it. Truly wonderful and intense, the movie appeals to the unconscious as very few movies do and takes you into the whirlwind of emotions and beautiful images it displays.
It really is ...( read more)
Very good movie! It's a shame that it was based on a real history... what a tragedy! But this guy was really impressive. Writing that book was quite something!
Normally I am not a huge fan of subtitled movies. This was a very drawn out movie. But 10/10 for the actor (he played a bad guy in Quantum of Solace 007). Two completely different roles. What I liked of this movie was that it had alot of humor in it. The way it was shot was s...( read more)
