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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: Julian Schnabel, Country: France, Release: 2007, Runtime: 112 Jean-Dominique Bauby was a key player in Parisian social and cultural circles before suffering a massive stroke at the age of 43, which robbed him of all muscle control save his left eyelid. Blinking one letter at a time, he composed a book describing life in a vegetative state that became an international best-seller. This is the basis of Julian Schnabel’s enthralling new film, with the marvelous Mathieu Amalric as Bauby. Diving Bell is a powerful meditation on the nature of visual perception, as well as a celebration of the emergence of personal artistic expression. A Miramax Films release.

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