Sunday, April 25, 2010

Le scaphandre et le papillon by Julian Schnabel, 2007



with Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Max Von Sydow (Intacto, Shutter Island, Robin Hood)...

"Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind." IMDB

It is a beautiful movie. In a creative sense and as a story. The art direction is very unique and poetic. The story is heartbreaking but full of life. An amazing lesson to learn. About the actors, they are all great, Mathieu Amalric first. It was at first an autobiography of "Jean-Do", makes you want to read the book. I'll come back to this post to say more.

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