Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

This is a beautiful film, in both senses of the word. The images are stunning (if a little disorienting to begin with), and the narrative jumps around quite a bit, but I can't imagine a better way in which the story could have been told. ... Full Review

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is absolute gorgeous. Mathieu Amalric plays our disabled point-of-view, affectionately called Jean-Do by his friends and family. ... Full Review

Unique, agonising and unbearably poignant, Jean-Dominique Bauby's story is one of the most remarkable imaginable. But the director's own cinematic eye is beautifully unsentimental and The Diving Bell's most deeply felt scenes are its quietest. ... Full Review

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is gentle, it is patient, it is compassionate and --....Diving Bell' a moving tale of a real-life triumph....As Schnabel tells this uncommon story of an uncommon man, he thrusts his audience into the middle of Bauby's life through inspired....concerns Schnabel, who won the Golden Globe for best director for his unique.... ... Full Review

With his one good eye, he communicated through blinking-once for yes, twice for no, and once when he heard a letter he wanted to use in a word-and dictated the novel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Bottom line: So simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking that your chest might short-circuit, "The Diving Bell" is a movie of extremes: of unimaginable pain and unbelievable generosity; of incredible ugliness and overwhelming beauty; of fate's ability to give unendingly and then take nearly all of it away ... Full Review

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Credit: Miramax Sadly, besides most of this year, Miramax had a tremendous amount of success under their current set up even rivaling (much to their dismay) the "glory years" of the Weinsteins. ... Full Article

The film stars Olivier Gourmet ( The Son [ trailer ]) as the tortured father and Anne Consigny ( The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [ trailer ], John Rabe [ trailer ]) as his wife. ... Full Article

Bottom Line: Vivid theatrical examinations of the clash between being an artist and doing the right thing. LONDON -- British playwright Ronald Harwood's 1995 play "Taking Sides" and his latest, "Collaboration," presented in tandem at the Duchess Theatre in London's... ... Full Article

PARIS -- Bruno Podalydes' "Bancs Publics," an ensemble film starring a bevy of well-known Gallic thesps, including Mathieu Amalric ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), will open the Paris Cinema Intl. ... Full Article

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