Pros: Oustanding emotional powerful film. Cons: Prepare to cry.
I once wrote a top ten list called Real Men do Cry at Movies. The French film, Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon), easily earns a spot on such a list. The movie is about a French journalist and editor ...
Pros: Great story, great cinematography Cons: Slow pace
In 1995 Jean-Dominique Bauby, 44 year-old French editor of Elle magazine, suffered a major stroke. He awoke completely paralyzed with movement in only his left eyelid. Initially distraught, he is able to pull himself together, dictating a memoir that ...
Pros: story; cast; presentation Cons: at first it seems very disorienting and unsettling
I didn’t know at first if I would enjoy 2007’s Le Scaphandre et la papillon or, more universally, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. This true French story is told from the perspective of a forty-two year old man who is suddenly ...
Pros: marvelously filmed, uplifting, inspiring story with wonderful performances Cons: some events were changed for the film adaptation
When I first read the story on which director Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is based, I was moved beyond words. I also could not imagine how such a tale could be made into a movie.Jean-Dominique ...
Pros: Schnabel's (and team's) vision, actors, script, and Jean Dominique Bauby Cons: Weak supporting characterizations (not performances!)
Film director/artist Julian Schnabel's vision of Jean Dominique Bauby's autobiographical memoir, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is a monumental accomplishment. It would seem a daunting task to adapt Bauby's autobiography to film, but ...
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a renowned journalist and author in France while being the editor of Elle magazine in its hey-day. Then in 1995 at the age of 43, Bauby suffered a paralyzing stroke where his left eye was the only movement in his body. Yet, ...
At the start of ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ (Le Scaphandre et le papillon, 2007), we are introduced to Jean-Dominique Bauby, the protagonist, through his own eyes -- or make that, eye. His left eye, to be exact. The camera assumes ...
By definition, the moving picture (the "movie") is associated with actions and sounds. So, why make a movie where the protagonist is totally paralyzed and mute? "Why not?" said the American visual artist Julian Schnabel, who proceeded to bring ...
Pros: Style, cinematography, human element. Cons: Can be a little self-indulgent.
Locked-In syndrome is great fodder for genre stories. Someone who is “Locked-In” is completely aware of their surroundings, capable of seeing, hearing and feeling, but unable to move any muscle in their bodies, with the usual exception of their ...
Pros: An interesting, uplifting story of a stroke victim Cons: It seemed a bit too light to me, wasn't totally successful.
This movie will generally interest foreign movie freaks. It's garnered lots of rave reviews and was on many top ten movies of the year lists. It's based on a true story, a book which was written by the former editor of " ELLE " magazine in France, ...
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