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| Sunday 21st | 6.00pm | Cork Opera House |
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The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon
Julian Schnabel
France, USA | 2007 | 112mins | Beta | Colour and Black & White |
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A film interpretation of the best-selling and critically lauded memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby. At the age 43, he was the charismatic, successful editor-in-chief of the French style magazine Elle; a man renowned for his lust for life.
On December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and fell into a coma, he finally regained consciousness 20 days later to find himself the victim of a rare “locked-in” syndrome - mentally cognitive and alert but completely unable to use his speech or any movement.
Bullishly, almost arrogantly, Bauby refused to just lie there and wait to die; he learned to master the few remaining bodily functions he could still control. By developing a very subtle and intricate series of signals by only blinking his left eyelid, he managed to find a way of communicating. The book took about 200,000 blinks to write and each word took approximately two minutes.
The work of a fantastically keen and witty mind, trapped in a vegetative state - Variety
Best Director - Cannes Film Festival |
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