Not since Francis Ford Coppola?s masterpiece, Apocalypse Now, have I been so utterly assaulted by a film.
Not since Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece, Apocalypse Now, have I been so utterly assaulted by a film. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a brilliant, uncomfortable, and unrelenting portrayal of the hellish fate of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the 43-year-old editor of Elle magazine. Bauby’s glamourous life screeches to a halt after he…

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Finding life in the face of death, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is one of the year’s best, most heartbreaking films.
Suddenly, irreversibly, and believably, journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathie Amalric) is silenced by a stroke so massive all that remains of him is his left eye. That eye remains as acute as it ever had been for Bauby, who shows us the pain and frustration of his new life, as well as his indomitable spirit, in Julian Schnabel’s remarkable…

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