Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007)

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

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Emmanuelle Seigner The Ninth Gate, Môme, La, Frantic Max von Sydow Minority Report, The Exorcist, Rush Hour 3 Mathieu Amalric Munich, Alice et Martin, Kings and Queen Marie-Josée Croze Munich, Taking Lives, Invasion of the Barbarians Anne Consigny 36 Quai des Orfèvres, Équipier, L', Anna M. Patrick Chesnais The Children of the Century, The Reader, Belle histoire, La Niels Arestrup The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Meeting Venus, Une affaire privée [more]

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