The true story of Elle France editor 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.

Keywords: writing, lover-(female), psychological-stress, dying-and-death, editor-in-chief, french, independent-film, patient, disabled,

Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Imdb rate: 8.0
Imdb votes: 98,764
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Director: Julian Schnabel
Writers: Ronald Harwood (screenplay), Jean-Dominique Bauby (book)
Actors:
Mathieu Amalric
Emmanuelle Seigner
Marie-Josée Croze
Anne Consigny

Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 66 wins & 95 nominations.