Le scaphandre et le papillon
Subtitle: [The diving bell and the butterfly]
By: Miramax Films et Pathé Renn Production présentent ; en co-production avec France 3 Cinéma, CRRAV ; une production de The Kennedy/Marshall Company et Jon Kilik ; un film de Julian Schnabel ; produit par Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik ; scénario, Ronald Harwood ; realisé par Julian Schnabel
Contributors: Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-1997; Decraene, François-Xavier, production manager; Kamiński, Janusz, 1959- cinematographer; Cantelon, Paul, composer; Mugel, Jean-Paul, sound director; Welfling, Juliette, film editor; Sydow, Max von, 1929- actor; Amalric, Mathieu, 1965- actor; Croze, Marie-Josée, 1970- actor; Seigner, Emmanuelle, actor; Miramax Films; Pathe Renn Production; Kennedy/Marshall Company; Lions Gate Films
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Drama; Quadriplegics; Periodical editors; Biography; Cerebrovascular disease
Other titles: Diving bell and the butterfly; Scaphandre et le papillon (Motion picture)
Description: Film about the French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Notes: Title from title frames.

Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir, published as: Le scaphandre et le papillon. Paris : Robert Laffont, 1997.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Directeur de production, François-Xavier Decraene ; producteurs exécutifs, Pierre Grunstein, Jim Lemley ; musique original, Paul Cantelon; son, Jean-Paul Mugel [and others] ; décors, Michel Eric, Laurent Ott ; montage, Juliette Welfling ; directeur de la photographie, Janusz Kaminski.

Max Von Sydow, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze.

Rating: PG-13; for nudity, sexual content and some language.

DVD, widescreen presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital.

French dialogue; English subtitles.