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Synopsis
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.
Cast
Mathieu Amalric·Jean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigner·Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Croze·Henriette Durand
Anne Consigny·Claude
Patrick Chesnais·Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrup·Roussin
Olatz López Garmendia·Marie Lopez
Jean-Pierre Cassel·Father Lucien
Marina Hands·Joséphine
Max von Sydow·Papinou