Release Date
2007-05-23
Status
Released
Original Title
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
Runtime
1h 52m
Budget
$14,000,020
Revenue
$19,777,647
Original Language
FR
Production Countries
France, United States of America
Production Companies
Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Overview
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.
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