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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Chic and charismatic, Jean-Dominique Bauby was ELLE magazine's elegant editor-in-chief until, in 1995, a massive stroke stripped him of his speech and all other motor faculties except the ability to blink his left eyelid. Despite his particular paralysis (called locked-in syndrome), Bauby systematically parlayed the imprisonment of his nimble mind into a memoir, titled The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. American artist Julian Schnabel, whose paintings breathe brutality and bare emotion, harvests Bauby's inspirational tale to craft a film of tragedy and triumph. Loyal to the original French lyricism, the film assumes an empathetic and enlivening first-person perspective, including periods of blackness that powerfully convey Bauby's reliance on blinking.

– Jason Jude Chan

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