Original Title
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
Status
Released
Production Companies
Pathé Renn ProductionsFrance 3 CinémaThe Kennedy/Marshall Company
Original Language
FR
Budget
$14,000,020
Revenue
$19,777,647
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
Director
Julian Schnabel
Production Countries
France, United States of America
Spoken Languages
French
