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Mood:
- GloomySincereTouchingAtmosphericEmotionalWitty
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Plot:
- Human SpiritIntrospectionLife Turned Upside DownDisabilityHopesLife is a BitchMind and SoulMute or Deaf more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- France
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedGolden Globe WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Voice Over
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007
French
France, USA
Profile of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The mood of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is gloomy, sincere, and touching. The plot centers around disabilities, a life turned upside-down, and the human spirit. It is a drama and foreign movie. Stylistically, it includes a voice over and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It is set in France. It happens in the 1990s. It is originally a true story and based on a book. It is known for being a Golden Globe winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes brief nudity and profanity.
Summary of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with this audacious and personal biopic, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed 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 memoir. 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. Schnabel somehow manages to convey Bauby's internal life with remarkable clarity, employing first-person perspective, striking cinematography (by the always great Janusz Kaminski), and Amalric's pained, life-affirming monologues. The result is a wholly original experience, a painful and tender portrait of a life that is made all the more exhilarating because of its close proximity to death.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France, USA |
| Release date: | 31 August 2007 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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