It is also a favorite among French learners. Watch this poignant and fascinating film for beautiful visuals not just of Paris, but of Lourdes and France’s northern beaches. Max Von Sydow delivers a riveting performance as his frail, heartbroken father. Internationally known actor Mathieu Almaric plays Bauby.
The settings include Paris and Lourdes and the windswept dunes and wide sandy beaches of France’s northern coast. It takes us through a moving tour of Bauby’s memories and imagination. Rather than being depressing, the film is joyful and inspiring. With great effort, he learns to blink in an alphabet code and thus dictate his extraordinary memoir. The only thing Bauby can do is blink his left eyelid. He wakes up after weeks in a coma in a hospital in the northern French seaside town of Berck.īauby can hear and see perfectly but cannot move or speak, a condition known as locked-in syndrome. Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s bestselling memoir, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly received four Oscar nominations and ranks in the BBC’s 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.Īt 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby has it all: wealth, health, and a glamorous life as the Parisian editor of Elle magazine when he is suddenly paralyzed by a massive stroke. This mesmerizing drama was directed by famed American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
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