The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Julian Schnabel
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Actor: Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Jos?e Croze, Mathieu Amalric, Patrick ChesnaisDirector: Julian Schnabel
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie Review: THIS is why I love the movies!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film, hands down, is one of the best films I have ever seen...in my entire life. It is a work of art, so beautifully done, so poignant, so true, so moving, and very real. I felt locked-in myself while watching it. The POV of Jean-Do was astoundingly ingenius, drawing me in immediately, from the opening shot through to the end.
What a story, such a tragedy, I read the book afterwards. In fact, I purchased it on the way home from the theater. The film is better, in my opinion--it expounds on the books ideas much more elaborately. Why oh why can't more films be of such quality?
Summary of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY THE (DVD MOVIE)The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralyzed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Kings and Queen) can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time. With the help of his speech therapist (Marie-Josee Croze, Munich) and a stenographer (Anne Consigny, Anna M.), Bauby writes the stunning memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But such a plot summary makes the movie sound like lofty, self-important medicine--far from it. Director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls), working from an elegant screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and with an oustanding cast (which also includes Frantic's Emmanuelle Seigner as Bauby's neglected wife), has created a movie as engrossing and hypnotic as a thriller, a movie that wrestles with mortality yet has stubborn streaks of dark humor and eroticism, that portrays a man who overcomes unimaginable obstacles but refuses to paint him as a saint. Schnabel was once dismissed as a pompous and overblown painter, but he's crafted an intimate visual poem, a humble sonata about life at its most fragile. --Bret Fetzer
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