- HD 1080
- Runtime: 112m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France, United States of America
- Director: Julian Schnabel
- Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
- keywords: dying and death, based on novel or book, writing, female lover, editor-in-chief, psychological stress, patient, disabled
- Production_studio: Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
- Slogan: Let your imagination set you free.
- The The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is featured in the top rankings of 2007
- #18 in Top Drama Movies of 2007
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.