The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007 7.6 (1196 votes) 1h 52m

Genres

Drama History

Production Companies

Pathé Renn Productions
France 3 Cinéma
The Kennedy/Marshall Company

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)

Let your imagination set you free.

Overview

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.