The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Julian Schnabel
Mathieu Amalric
Emmanuelle Seigner
Max Von Sydow
Marie-josée Croze
Agathe De La Fontaine
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Jean-Dominique Bauby AKA "Jean-Do," the high-flying editor of French Elle and father of two, was renowned for his sense of humor and style, his joie de vivre and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his world was plunged into the depths of catastrophe. Faced with a harrowing predicament, Jean-Do will use enormous courage and determination but, most of all, his soaring imagination to escape from his trap. Tapping into the limitlessness of his memories, fantasies, wit and wishes, he finds a way to race through experiences of wonder and grief, sex and love, fatherhood and childhood, faith and questioning, ecstasy and absurdity--and touches the very essence of what it is to be human. Along the way he is buoyed by a quintet of remarkable women: Céline, the mother of his children who remains devoted to him despite his betrayal; Inés, the girlfriend who still haunts him; Henriette and Marie, who give Jean-Do the power to re-connect with the world and his loved ones; and Claude, who becomes his ravishing literary assistant.
Director
Julian Schnabel
Cast
Mathieu Amalric
Emmanuelle Seigner
Max Von Sydow
Marie-josée Croze
Agathe De La Fontaine
Michael Wincott
Emma De Caunes
Francis Filloux
Francoise Lebrun
Lenny Kravitz
Farida Khelfa
Cedric Brelet Von Sydow
Anna Chyzh
Talina Boyaci
Laure De Clermont-tonnere
Jean-phillippe Ecoffey
Daniel Lapostolle
Yves-marie Coppin
Ilze Bajare
Elvis Polanski
Patrick Chesnais
Theo Sampaio
Marina Hands
Georges Roche
Isaach Debankolt
Marie Meyer
Sara Seguela
Franck Victor
Nicolas Le Riche
Jean-pierre Cassel
Azzedine Alaia
Philippe Roux
Virginie Delmotte
Anne Alvaro
Gerard Watkins
Jean Baptiste Mondino
Anne Consigny
Antoine Breant
Niels Arestrup
Francoise Delaire
Fiorella Campanella
Vasile Negru
Olatz Lopez Garmendia
Zinedine Soualem
Crew
Philippe Alleton
Olivier Alonso
Francois Amadei
Virginia Anderson
David Artigala
Nadia Atout
Luc Augereau
Damien Auriol
J Barnes
Edith Barrier
Aude Bassisty
Florence Batteault
Jean-dominique Bauby
Jérôme Baudoin
Sylvette Baudrot
Luke Bellen
Beatrice Bellone
Rachel Berger
Olivier Beriot
Virginie Bernard
Olivier Billard
Arnaud Bisselbach
Yann Blondel
Samuel Bordet
Yannick Boulot
Dominique Boussagol
Valery Bouteliere
Philippe Boutillier
Adrien Bozakian
Catherine Brelet Von Sydow
K Brennan
Nacio Herb Brown
Delphine Brunet
Vline Buggy
Gwenael Camuzard
Paul Cantelon
Paul Cantelon
Bernard Caroff
David Caroff
Mathilde Cavillan
Thierry Di Cecca
Xavier Champagnac
Boris Chapelle
Emmanuel Che
Christian Chevalier
Guillaume Chevet
Nicolas Christin
Sandrine Cirilli
Benjamin Clement
Maguy Cohen
Anne Collon
Fabrice Collon
Marcel Collon
Patrick Collon
Jean Constantin
Jean Constantin
Raphaël Cornillon
Sebastien Cosset
Sebastien Coulet
Sebastien Courtain
Yann Crelot
Alexia Crisp-jones
Claire Cunier
Rosana D'andrea
Oceane D'hont
Arnaud Damaz
Jean-claude Dauphinot
D Davis
M Davis
Adrien Debackere
Frantois-xavier Decraene
Pascal Delaunay
Joel Delclos
Elisabeth Delesalle
Isabelle Delhumeau
Philippe Delmas
Jacques Delzescaux
Georges Demetrau
Mathieu Desouches
Amelie Dibon
Aurore Diot-cods
Philippe Donge
Deborah Dours
Jereemie Droulers
Rodolphe Duhamel
Francois Dupuy
Julien Durguel
Christian Dutac
Fabien Eigen
Pierre Emergy
Michel Eric
Nicolas Faure
Geoffroy Felley
Emiliano Fernandez
Marcela Figueroa
Thierry Flament
Olivier Fortin
Marie-pierre Frappier
Arthur Freed
Jacques Fresnel
Laurene Gabillon
Dominique Gaborieau
Germain Garziano
Christian Gazio
Christian Gazio
Antonin Gendre
Etienne George
Melanie Gerbeaux
Marion Gervais
Sana El Ghoul
Claudy Gibier
Franck Gies
Thierry Girard
Hubert Giraud
Leonard Glowinski
Stephane Gluck
Alexandre Gotkovski
Gilles Granier
Julian Grisot
Christian Gruau
Pierre Grunstein
Pascal Guegan
Sttphan Guillemet
Marie Guillon
Eddie Guittard
Varujan Gumusel
Peter Hammond
Robert J Harris
Ronald Harwood
Geoffroy Hassoun
Mildred Hill
Patty Hill
Jan Gagnaire Hochstein
Dominique Hollier
Olgierd Hordierjuk-zaniewicki
Myriam Hottois
Maud Hubert
Christine Huet-gigandet
Herve Icovic
Olivier Jacob
Sue Jacobs
Camille Janbon
Sylvain Jardin
Thomas Jodeau
Camille Joste
Sylvain Joubert
Damien Jousselin
Isabelle Julien
Jean-francois Juvanon
Janusz Kaminski
Janusz Kaminski
Abdel Ali Kassou
Michael Katims
Myriam Kaufmann
Jacques Kazandjian
Kathleen Kennedy
Jon Kilik
Emilie Larribaut-guinguene
Damien Lazzerini
Jean-louis Le Bras
Lionel Le Bras
Yann Lebrun
Anita Lechbedech
Lucie Lefebvre
Vincent Lefeuvre
Logan Lelievre
Benjamin Leloch
Jim Lemley
Christophe Lemoine
Marine Lepoutre
Benoit Lestang
Thierry Leveque
Fabien Lewartowski
Frederique Liebaut
Chloe Van Lierde
Julien Linieres
Christine Loisy
Anne-claire Loridant
Loriane Lucas
Anne Maisonhaute
Michel Malbesin
Danielle Maleville
Sebastien Marziniak
Emmanuel Mathieu
Malika Mazauric
Cedric Mazeratti
Fiona Mclaughlin
Margot Meynier
Jerome Miel
Helene Millet
Vincent Milner
Julien Minet
Nolwenn Moign
Mikael Monod
Pascal Morisset
Laure Moulin
Philippe Mouton
Jean-paul Mugel
Sylvie Neant
Thierry Noblet
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Editing
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted one of the 10 best films of 2007 by the American Film Institute (AFI).
Winner of the 2007 award for Best Adapted Screenplay by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Winner of the 2007 award for Best Cinematography by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).
Winner of the 2007 award for Best Foreign Film by the National Board of Review (NBR).
Winner of the 2007 award for Best Foreign Language Film by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle (SFFCC).
Winner of the 2007 award for Best Foreign Language Film by the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA).
Winner of the 2007 Satellite Award for Best Cinematography by the International Press Academy (IPA).
Winner of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Film Prize in Science and Technology at the 2007 Hamptons International Film Festival.
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2007 AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Winner of the European Film Award at the 2007 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Winner of three 2007 awards including Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Foreign-Language Film by the Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC).
Winner of two awards including Best Director and the Prize Vulcain de l'Artiste-Technicien at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Released in United States Fall November 30, 2007
Released in United States on Video April 29, 2008
Released in United States 2007
Released in United States September 2007
Released in United States October 2007
Released in United States November 2007
Released in United States December 2007
Shown at London Film Festival (Special Screening) October 17-November 1, 2007.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 28-October 14, 2007.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Spotlight on France) September 27-October 12, 2007.
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Zabaltegi - Pearls) September 20-29, 2007.
Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 17-21, 2007.
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 4-12, 2007.
Shown at Dubai International Film Festival (Cinema of the World) December 9-16, 2007.
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" was authored by Jean-Dominique Bauby, former editor of French fashion magazine Elle, who, completely paralyzed by amanuensis, silently wrote the novel by blinking his left eye as his collaborator, Claude Mendibil, translated his blinks to letters and words. The 44-year-old Bauby died on March 9, 1997, just two days after the publication of his book.
Jean-Dominique Bauby was the subject of a half-hour 1997 documentary for French television, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Based on the autobiography "Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon" written by Jean-Dominique Bauby.
Ron Bass was previously attached to write.
Scott Hicks was previously attached to direct.
Project was previously in development at Dreamworks.
Project was included on the 2006 Black List.
Miramax Films acquired North American distribution rights at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for a reported sum of $3 million.
Released in United States Fall November 30, 2007 (NY, LA)
Released in United States on Video April 29, 2008
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at London Film Festival (Special Screening) October 17-November 1, 2007.)
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 28-October 14, 2007.)
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival August 31-September 3, 2007.)
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Spotlight on France) September 27-October 12, 2007.)
Released in United States September 2007 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Zabaltegi - Pearls) September 20-29, 2007.)
Released in United States October 2007 (Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 17-21, 2007.)
Released in United States October 2007 (Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 4-12, 2007.)
Released in United States November 2007 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Special Screening) November 1-11, 2007.)
Released in United States December 2007 (Shown at Dubai International Film Festival (Cinema of the World) December 9-16, 2007.)
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