The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography -The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka -La ...more

The story of former French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) is an extraordinary one. After a stroke afflicted him with locked-in syndrome, a condition which robbed him of speech and mobility, save for the capacity to blink his left eyelid, the fashion chieftain saw his once cosmopolitan lifestyle come to a halt. Yet Bauby, or Jean-Do as his closest friends called him, was still fully cognizant and articulate, and with the assistance of a transcriber he managed to dictate his ...more