The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Le scaphandre et le papillon

Let your imagination set you free.

112 min★ 8.0 · 113,352 votes

• Biography
• Drama

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.

Release date

March 27, 2008

Country of origin

France

Budget

$14,000,020

Box office

$19,777,647