The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (23/05/2007)

Production : Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Synopsis

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.