The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
"Let your imagination set you free."
Critics Score
🎬 93%
(RT: 94%, MC: 92) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage
Olatz López Garmendia as Marie Lopez
Is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly good?
Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 93%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
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. Wikipedia ↗
