Movie · 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
“Let your imagination set you free.”
Released 23 May 2007 112 min Drama / History More from 2007 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
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How old were they?
Max von Sydow
as Papinou
Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Father Lucien
Patrick Chesnais
as Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrup
as Roussin
Anne Alvaro
as Betty
Isaach de Bankolé
as Laurent
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
as Doctor Mercier
Anne Consigny
as Claude
Lenny Kravitz
as Himself
Mathieu Amalric
as Jean-Dominique Bauby
Gérard Watkins
as Doctor Cocheton
Emmanuelle Seigner
as Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Croze
as Henriette Durand
Marina Hands
as Joséphine
Emma de Caunes
as Empress Eugenia
Olatz López Garmendia
as Marie Lopez
Nicolas Le Riche
as Ninjinski
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The numbers
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
78Max von Sydow — oldest on the call sheet
30Emma de Caunes — youngest billed
48average age of the credited cast