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The poster features a split image: a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick in the upper half, and a man in a dark suit looking upward in the lower half. The title "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is centered in bold white text against a dark background. The colors are warm and moody, evoking...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007 · Movie · 112 min· Updated Jul 2026
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You can watch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) for free on Hoopla, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

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.

The camera inhabits a fractured, hallucinatory perspective that mimics a mind trapped within a motionless body. This sensory journey transforms a medical tragedy into a vivid, blink-by-blink reclamation of the human spirit.

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Julian Schnabel

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Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow

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The poster features a split image: a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick in the upper half, and a man in a dark suit looking upward in the lower half. The title "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is centered in bold white text against a dark background. The colors are warm and moody, evoking...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007•⭐ 7.6•112 min•Updated Jul 2026
🌐French

You can watch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) for free on Hoopla, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

Rated:PG-13
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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.

The camera inhabits a fractured, hallucinatory perspective that mimics a mind trapped within a motionless body. This sensory journey transforms a medical tragedy into a vivid, blink-by-blink reclamation of the human spirit.

Director

Julian Schnabel

Cast

Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow

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