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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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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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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
You can watch The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) for free on Hoopla, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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7.6/10
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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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