• StatusReleased
  • Release Date2007-05-23
  • Runtime112 minutes
  • TaglineLet your imagination set you free.
  • Revenue19,777,647$
  • GenreDrama, History
  • Production
    CompaniesPathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
  • Budget14,000,020$

Movie Overview

The true story of 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.

Casts

Mathieu Amalric

Emmanuelle Seigner

Marie-Josée Croze

Anne Consigny

Patrick Chesnais

Niels Arestrup

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Marina Hands

Max von Sydow

Isaach de Bankolé

Emma de Caunes

Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Gérard Watkins

Fiorella Campanella

Talina Boyaci

Anne Alvaro

Françoise Lebrun

Zinedine Soualem

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

Agathe de La Fontaine

Marie Meyer

Ilze Bajare

Anna Chyzh

Lenny Kravitz

Michael Wincott