The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  • 22 Jan 2009 - 7:30pm - Corn Exchange
  • France/USA - 2007 - Julian Schnabel - 112 mins

Summary: This moving Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the successful editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke which left him completely paralysed apart from his left eye-lid. With incredible empathy and humour, it traces his efforts to dictate his memoirs by blinking in a special alphabetical code

Ratings: A: 76 | B: 25 | C: 4 | D: 0 | E: 0 | Overall: 92

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