The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Blu-ray, Includes Digital Copy)
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Blu-ray Details
- Released: January 31, 2023
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mathieu Amalric, Patrick Chesnais, Marie-Josée Croze, Olatz Lapez Garmendia, Max Von Sydow, Anne Consigny, Niels Arestrup & Emmanuelle Seigner | |
Directed by | Julian Schnabel |
Major Awards:
Cannes 2007 -
Best Director: Julian Schnabel
Entertainment Reviews:
94%
TOMATOMETER
5 stars out of 5 -- Schnabel has transposed the book thoughtfully and successfully....It's an inspiring and profoundly moving experience.
Uncut
[A] delicate and finely judged film....Janusz Kaminski's impressionistic cinematography can't help but seem refreshing...
Sight and Sound
[The director] has scattered, layered, and shuffled images to create a very specific universe as sensual as the subject himself described it in hard-won words. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
[Schnabel] possesses an imaginative eye that avoids the obvious and mawkish.
Box Office
Julian Schnabel's magnificent French-language film, like its true-life subject, transcends reality's prison with surreal buoyancy.
Wall Street Journal
[Mr. Schnabel] demonstrates his own imaginative freedom in every frame and sequence, dispensing with narrative and expository conventions in favor of a wild, intuitive honesty.
New York Times
[The] imaginative and sensitive film, starring France's gifted Mathieu Amalric, is simultaneously uplifting and melancholy, suffused with an unexpected sense of possibility as much as the inevitable sense of loss.
Los Angeles Times
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.
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- Sales Rank: 107,359
- UPC: 191329237816
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