This BAFTA and Golden Globe winning drama is the true story of Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), who,...
This BAFTA and Golden Globe winning drama is the true story of Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), 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.
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- Award winner
- Best Director, Best Foreign Film winner at the Golden Globes 2008. Best Adapted Screenplay at the BAFTAs 2008.
- Rating
- M,
- Runtime
- 112
- Genre
- Drama, True Story & Biography
- Country of origin
- France