The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [Import] (Blu-ray)
Let your imagination set you free
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 2, 2010
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Ais
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marie-Josée Croze, Mathieu Amalric & Emmanuelle Seigner | |
Performer: | Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lapez Garmendia & Max Von Sydow | |
Directed by | Julian Schnabel | |
Screenwriting by | Ronald Harwood | |
Composition by | Paul Cantelon | |
Produced by | Kathleen Kennedy & Jon Kilik | |
Director of Photography: | Janusz Kaminski |
Major Awards:
Cannes 2007 -
Best Director: Julian Schnabel
Entertainment Reviews:
[Schnabel] possesses an imaginative eye that avoids the obvious and mawkish.
Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he visual style itself becomes the key element that allows us to understand and admire the way that Bauby's mental vivacity overcomes his physical limitations.
Empire
A work of art. A celebration of life and hope. A testament to the human mind.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: A- --
One of the most visually original films in recent memory, and one that features just as much substance as style.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: 5/5 --
Nothing in director Julian Schnabel's career so far has anticipated the sweetness, sadness, maturity and restraint of this lovely movie.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/4 --
Its flow of memory and imagination transforms the hero's nightmare into a dream, where a glance at the radiance of sunlight in a curtain is an elemental vision of what it means to be alive.
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Spin
[A] delicate and finely judged film....Janusz Kaminski's impressionistic cinematography can't help but seem refreshing...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with this audacious and personal biopic, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable "locked in" syndrome at the age of 43. Bauby's only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye, and after several dedicated helpers--a string of impossibly beautiful women (Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Olatz Lopez Garamendia, Anne Consigny)--helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoir. Along the way, as he swam in and out of consciousness, memories from his past swelled into the present, resulting in a cinematic experience that is at once heartbreaking and hopeful. Schnabel somehow manages to convey Bauby's internal life with remarkable clarity, employing first-person perspective, striking cinematography (by the always great Janusz Kaminski), and Amalric's pained, life-affirming monologues. The result is a wholly original experience, a painful and tender portrait of a life that is made all the more exhilarating because of its close proximity to death.