Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The France / USA
2007, 112min.
Prod.: Jon Kilik, Kathleen Kennedy, Script: Ronald Harwood, Dir.: Julian Schnabel, Dir. of Phot.: Janusz Kaminski, Compos.: Paul Cantelon, Prod. Design: Michel Eric, Laurent Ott, Sound: Dominique Gaborieau, Edit.: Juliette Welfling.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankolé, Emma de Caunes, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Gérard Watkins, Nicolas Le Riche.
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.
Awards
Best Director, Technical Grand Prize (Cannes, 2007), Golden Frog (Camerimage, 2007), BAFTA Film Award, 2008, César Award, 2008 (Best Actor, Best Editing), Golden Globe, 2008 (Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film), Lumiere Award, 2008 (Best Film, Best Actor),
Production Company
Pathé Renn Productions
| Schnabel, Julian Julian Schnabel (born 26.10.1951, Brooklyn, New York, USA)
Schnabel moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas when still young. In 1973 he received his B.F.A. at the University of Houston. After graduating, he sent an application to the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His application included slides of his work sandwiched between two pieces of bread; he was promptly accepted. Struggling in the art world, Schnabel worked as a short-order cook and frequented Max's Kansas City, a restaurant-nightclub, while he worked on his art. In 1975, Schnabel had his first solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. In addition to his work as an artist, Schnabel has written and directed three films: Basquiat, a biopic on the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, Before Night Falls, an adaptation of Reinaldo Arenas' autobiographical novel, which he also produced, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an adaptation of a French memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby.
Filmography
Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).
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