Country:France, United States
Runtime:112 min
Released:01 Feb 2008
Plot: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Forty three year old Elle magazine editor Jean Dominique Bauby Jean Do to his friends awakens not knowing where he is He is in a Berck sur Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke Although his cognitive facilities are intact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including Celine Desmoulins, his ex lover and mother of his children Ines, his current lover and his aged father who he calls Papinou Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate using a system where he spells out words she reads out the letters of the alphabet in descending order of their use in the French language, and he blinks his functioning left eye when she reaches the appropriate letter Although frustrating at start, he learns to communicate effectively but slowly using this method, so much so that with the help of Claude, a full time translator, he decides on the monumental and seemingly impossible task to keep to his pre injury commitment of writing a book, changing its focus to life in his current state
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