The Diving Bell and the Butterfly poster
Director Julian Schnabel
Screenplay Ronald Harwood

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Original Title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Tagline: Let your imagination set you free.

Release Date: 2007-05-23

Duration: 112 minutes

Synopsis

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

Casting

  • Lenny Kravitz
    Himself
  • Michael Wincott
    Fashion Photographer
  • Emmanuelle Seigner
    Céline Desmoulins
  • Emma de Caunes
    Empress Eugenia
  • Mathieu Amalric
    Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • Max von Sydow
    Papinou
  • Marie-Josée Croze
    Henriette Durand
  • Marina Hands
    Joséphine
  • Anne Consigny
    Claude
  • Isaach De Bankolé
    Laurent