
"Let your imagination set you free."
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.
Director
Julian Schnabel
Budget
$14,000,020
Revenue
$19,777,647
Status
Released

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