DVD
The diving bell and the butterfly
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
French, English, and Spanish language tracks ; English, French and Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankolé.
Publication Information
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for nudity, sexual content, and some language.
Summary
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. 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 container.
Based on the novel "Le scaphandre et le papillon" by Jean-Dominique Bauby.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.