In an unlikely coup, artist-turned-director Julian Schnabel transformed French magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's miraculous 1997 memoir of life as a completely paralyzed stroke survivor into a film that captures the essence of the book in both its horror and its unexpected beauty.
The last thing 43-year-old French Elle editor-in-chief Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) remembers is picking up his son in the suburbs of Paris and racing off to the movies in his bright red convertible. The only thing he now knows for certain is that he's in a hospital bed and can't move or speak. Looking directly into his left eye — the only one that seems to b...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
112 mins