Le Scaphandre et le Papillon · 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
«Let your imagination set you free.»
DramaHistory
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.
TMDB
7.6
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- Budget
- US$14,000,020
- Worldwide revenue
- US$19,777,647
- Profit
- US$5,777,627
- Production companies
- Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
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