At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke,... (Learn more)
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Consigny (View All)
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Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Consigny
The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Scaphandre et la Papillon), then in Jean-Jacques Beineix's half-hour 1997 documentary of Bauby at work, released under the same title, and, ten years after that, in this Cannes-selected docudrama, helmed by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) and adapted from the memoir by Ronald Harwood (Cromwell). The Schnabel/Harwood picture follows Bauby's story to the letter -- his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of "diving bell" for Bauby -- one with no means of escape. With the editor's mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the "butterfly" of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby's physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world: ocular activity. By moving his eyes and blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but -- astonishingly -- authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet. In Schnabel's picture, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby; the film co-stars Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, and Patrick Chesnais. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
11/30/07
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexual content and some language.
Running Time
114 mins.
Language
- French
Box Office Total
$5,990,075
Awards
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Phoenix Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 2007 Detroit Film Critics Society [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2007 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Non-English Language Feature award at the 2007 Utah Film Critics [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 2007 Journalists, Alliance of Women Film [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2007 Detroit Film Critics Society [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 2007 Kansas City Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 San Diego Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Kansas City Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2007 Writers Guild of America [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 2007 San Francisco Film Critics Circle [Fes Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 2007 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Prix Vulcain de l'Artiste-Technicien award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Ohio Film Critics [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Association, Southeastern Film Critics Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Producers Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Directing award at the 2007 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 2007 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2007 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Editing award at the 2007 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2007 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 2007 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematographer award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction in a Contemporary Film award at the 2007 Art Directors Guild [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2007 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 2007 Journalists, Alliance of Women Film [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 2007 Las Vegas Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2007 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 2007 Boston Society of Film Critics [Festiv Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 2007 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2007 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2007 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2007 New York Film Critics Online [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Boston Society of Film Critics [Festiv Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2007 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Feature award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Detroit Film Critics Society [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Washington D.C. Film Critics Associatio Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Florida Film Critics [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 Association, Southeastern Film Critics Awards.
Distributor
- Miramax Films
- Miramax Home Entertainment
- Pathe Distribution
