The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Mathieu Amalric Jean-Dominique Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner Céline Desmoulins

Marie-Josée Croze Henriette Durand

Anne Consigny Claude

Patrick Chesnais Dr. Lepage