The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“Let your imagination set you free.”

7.6/ 10 1,262 votes 2007-05-23 1h 52m 2 popularity

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.