The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
French |
| sun 07 sept | 4.30pm | cinema 1 |
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Director - Julian Schnabel
The film tells the remarkable story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralysed by the inexplicable
"locked in" syndrome at the age of 43. Bauby's only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye, and after several dedicated helpers - a string of impossibly beautiful women (Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Olatz Lopez Garamendia, Anne Consigny) - helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoirs. Along the way, as he swam in and out of consciousness, memories from his past swelled into the present, resulting in a cinematic experience that is at once heartbreaking and hopeful.
Not to be missed!