

Let your imagination set you free.
2007 · 1h 52m · ★ 7.6
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Father Lucien

Marina Hands
Joséphine

Max von Sydow
Papinou

Isaach de Bankolé
Laurent

Emma de Caunes
Empress Eugenia