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List Price: $29.99Amazon.com's Price: $18.99 You Save: $11.00 (37%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936750119
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 1971
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2007
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 04/29/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com:
The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralyzed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Kings and Queen) can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist (Marie-Josee Croze, Munich) and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, Anna M.), Bauby writes the stunning memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But such a plot summary makes the movie sound like lofty, self-important medicine--far from it. Director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls), working from an elegant screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and with an oustanding cast (which also includes Frantic's Emmanuelle Seigner as Bauby's neglected wife), has created a movie as engrossing and hypnotic as a thriller, a movie that wrestles with mortality yet has stubborn streaks of dark humor and eroticism, that portrays a man who overcomes unimaginable obstacles but refuses to paint him as a saint. Schnabel was once dismissed as a pompous and overblown painter, but he's crafted an intimate visual poem, a humble sonata about life at its most fragile. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
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When magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) suffers a massive stroke, the result is a case of `locked-in syndrome,' which leaves the body paralyzed but the mind unaffected. Through a laborious system of blinking, he defies his condition to communicate not only with those around him, but with the world as well via the writing of his memoir.
Director Julian Schnabel and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski use a full palette of film techniques to bring us into Bauby's world, ... Read More
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French film with English subtitles. This is a memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby - a man on top of the world - editor of Elle - a popular fashion design magazine. Bauby suddenly acquires "locked-in" syndrome - a rare illness which paralyzes him from his head to his toes. Bauby cannot speak but remains trapped in a sound mind. He only has the use of his left eye - and with patient care givers he learns to "sign" and communicate with his eye by blinking. After passing through bouts of claustrophobia, ... Read More
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The most striking element of the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is most certainly the cinematography. The majority of the film is shot from the perspective of Jean-Dominique Bauby's eye. This creates some very interesting and dynamic shots. I found the first couple scenes particularly interesting. When the film begins, Mr. Bauby's eye slowly opens and looks around the room. The Camera is extremely out of focus and blurry. It immediately draws you deep into the film. As people begin to take notice ... Read More
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Some lines from the script that will give you a flavor of Jean-Dominique Baubly (Jean-Do) and the circumstance of his life.
I am a vegetable, lying in my bed unable to move. My whole body is encased in a kind of diving suit.
I have decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed. My imagination. And my memory.
These are only two ways I can escape from my diving bell.
Rating:  -
While the story this film is based on is amazing, the movie itself was rather lukewarm. One would think a story of such caliber would be incredibly moving and inspiring, but somehow the movie failed to either move or inspire me. It struggled hopelessly to make us feel what the character feels, but for me it simply did not work. I could not relate to anyone in this film. I would still recommend it for people who love drama and French films, because it's by no means a bad movie. It just wasn't my cup of tea.
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