The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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.
Drama
France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Pathé Renn Productions, Banques Populaire Image 7, Canal+, CinéCinéma, C.R.R.A.V. Nord Pas de Calais, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby, Emmanuelle Seigner as Céline Desmoulins, Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Durand, Anne Consigny as Claude, Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage, Niels Arestrup as Roussin, Olatz López Garmendia as Marie Lopez, Jean-Pierre Cassel as Father Lucien, Marina Hands as Joséphine, Max von Sydow as Papinou, Isaach De Bankolé as Laurent, Emma de Caunes as Empress Eugenia, Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Doctor Mercier, Gérard Watkins as Doctor Cocheton, Nicolas Le Riche as Ninjinski, Théo Sampaio as Théophile, Fiorella Campanella as Céleste, Talina Boyaci as Hortense, Anne Alvaro as Betty, Françoise Lebrun as Madame Bauby, Zinedine Soualem as Joubert, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre as Diane, Agathe de La Fontaine as Inès