The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mathieu Amalric & Emmanuelle Seigner | |
Performer: | Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lapez Garmendia & Max Von Sydow | |
Directed by | Julian Schnabel | |
Edited by | Juliette Welfling | |
Screenplay 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:
94%
TOMATOMETER
3 stars out of 4 -- [S]urrealistic and inventive. The film version of the best-selling memoir THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is visually arresting and a tribute to the power of imagination...
USA Today
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Schnabel's] best film yet, a high-wire act of visual daring and unquenchable spirit.
Rolling Stone
[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
The result is like a precious art object -- crafted by a painter -- that through emotional wealth and visual invention amplifies the poignancy found on the page.
Film Comment
5 stars out of 5 -- Schnabel has transposed the book thoughtfully and successfully....It's an inspiring and profoundly moving experience.
Uncut
[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
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: 11,354
- UPC: 191329202319
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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