Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)

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The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Scaphandre et la Papillon), then in Jean-Jacques Beineix's half-hour 1997 documentary of Bauby at work, released under the same title, and, ten years after that, in this Cannes-selected docudrama, helmed by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) and adapted from the memoir by Ronald Harwood (Cromwell). The Schnabel/Harwood picture fo...
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llows Bauby's story to the letter -- his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of "diving bell" for Bauby -- one with no means of escape. With the editor's mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the "butterfly" of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby's physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world: ocular activity. By moving his eyes and blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but -- astonishingly -- authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet. In Schnabel's picture, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby; the film co-stars Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, and Patrick Chesnais.
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Op 8 december 1995 kreeg Jean-Dominique Bauby, journalist bij het Franse Elle en pas 43 jaar oud, een beroerte. Hij raakte in een coma en toen hij bij bewustzijn kwam bleek dat hij over zijn hele lichaam verlamd was geraakt, met uitzondering van één oog. De film vertelt over deze waargebeurde gebeurtenissen en hoe Bauby opgesloten zat in zijn niet functionerende lichaam. Zijn ene werkende oog werd zijn enige band met de buitenwereld, door simpelweg 1 keer te knipperen voor 'ja' en twee maal voor 'nee' .

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