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 enlarge | Actors: Anne Alvaro, Niels Arestrup, Jean-pierre Cassel, Patrick Chesnais, Isaach De Bankolé
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 1971
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: DISD55967D
UPC: 786936750119
EAN: 0786936750119
ASIN: B00104QSOC
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2007
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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 Sensitive film, extraordinary story August 20, 2008
Nirmal Ghosh (Thailand)
Quite a feat to translate such a difficult story into film, and it works. This is a sensitive film of an extraordinary story at once a lesson in life and death, as well as poignant and inspirational - and handled without ever becoming cloying or maudlin.
Very moving August 20, 2008
Jenna Sibley (Chico, CA)
Director Schnabel turned a most depressing subject into a beautiful story about will and compassion. The scenery is beautiful and the filming extraordinary. That the director is an artist and had a fear of dying adds to the deep undertones. No wonder it has received so many awards. Not recommended for small children.
 very accurate discription of a stroke August 17, 2008
Johnny & Riza (Lafayette. Colorado)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had a very bad stroke three years ago. I even had surgery. I loved this move. The only differance betweem me amd him was modern medicine. It brought back many memories. Very accurate. Very inspirational. I still go to therapy and I still have a limited range of motion. I can now touch my ear with the effected hand/arm. It made me realize how much I can do.
Never received it August 11, 2008
Lourdes De La Huerta (Miami, FL)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had forgotten about this order. I never received it.
Lourdes
A brilliant, moving film August 10, 2008
Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA)
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is one of the move moving films that I have seen in some time. The film tells the true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's devastating stroke, which left his mental faculties completely unimpaired but left him physically unable to move apart from blinking his left eye. The part of Bauby, or Jean-Do as he is called, was originally going to be played by Johnny Depp (he had to pull out because of conflicts with the PIRATES films), but as fine as he is as an actor it is hard to imagine that he would have been finer than Mathieu Amalric. Though there are many flashback scenes where Amalric is able to use his entire body, most often he is able to do nothing but blink his eye. Lines from T. S. Eliot kept running through my mind as I watched Amalric bring his character to life -- "Paralyzed force, gesture without motion." Yet Amalric is able to bring a surprising amount of expressiveness to his role, partly aided by glasses that seem to magnify his right eye, the only part of his body that he is able to move.
I have not read the book upon which the movie is based, a novel that was painstakingly dictated by Jean-Do as his aide would read out the alphabet and he would blink when she would reach the correct letter. By any standard of human achievement, the writing of the book has to stand as one of the most remarkable accomplishments in our culture. One can hardly imagine managing desiring to stay alive under such conditions, let alone write a book.
The use of the camera is in the film is remarkable. For quite a while at the beginning all camera work is from the first person, seeing pretty much what Jean-Do would have seen. Once that first person perspective is broken it moves back and forth from that perspective to that of a disembodied outside observer. Especially in moving from the flashback scenes to those of Jean-Do as a paralytic, the shifting in viewpoints reinforces the sense of his entrapment in his own body.
The film further establishes Julian Schnabel as one of the finest filmmakers active today. His resume is tiny, but all three of his feature films make for riveting viewing. At the rate at which he works (his main career has been as a painter based out of New York), he make only get around to making 2 or 3 more films, but I'll be anxious to see anything and everything he makes.
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