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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
ID:
2007
Comments:
Director: Julian Schnabel
Screenplay: Jean-Dominique Bauby, Ronald Harwood
Producer: François-Xavier Decraene, Jim Lemley, Jon Kilik, Kathleen Kennedy, Léonard Glowinski
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
Genre: Art House & International

Running Time: 112
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1 (NTSC Widescreen)
Sound: Dolby
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Features:
Studio:  Miramax DVD Region:  1 PG-13
DVD Release:  Apr 2008 Discs:  1 (DVD) [$19.99]
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Reviews:  The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralyzed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, "Kings and Queen") can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist (Marie-Josee Croze, "Munich") and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, "Anna M."), Bauby writes the stunning memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". But such a plot summary makes the movie sound like lofty, self-important medicine--far from it. Director Julian Schnabel ("Basquiat", "Before Night Falls"), working from an elegant screenplay by Ronald Harwood ("The Pianist") and with an oustanding cast (which also includes "Frantic's" Emmanuelle Seigner as Bauby's neglected wife), has created a movie as engrossing and hypnotic as a thriller, a movie that wrestles with mortality yet has stubborn streaks of dark humor and eroticism, that portrays a man who overcomes unimaginable obstacles but refuses to paint him as a saint. Schnabel was once dismissed as a pompous and overblown painter, but he's crafted an intimate visual poem, a humble sonata about life at its most fragile. "--Bret Fetzer"


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