Released:
2007-05-23

Overview:
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

Runtime:
1h 52min

Genre:
Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Mathieu Amalric
  as
  Jean-Dominique Bauby
• 
  Emmanuelle Seigner
  as
  Céline Desmoulins
• 
  Marie-Josée Croze
  as
  Henriette Durand
• 
  Anne Consigny
  as
  Claude
• 
  Patrick Chesnais
  as
  Dr. Lepage