France/USA
Feature Film
Original Title: Le scaphandre et le papillon
Director: Julian Schnabel
Writers: Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Composer: Paul Cantelon
Cast: Mathieu Almaric, 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
Schnabel’s remarkable film, relating the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, following a massive stroke that left him almost completely paralysed, wrote a book about his experiences solely using blinking as a means of communication, is a stunning, one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece. Iain.Stott
Feature Film
Original Title: Le scaphandre et le papillon
Director: Julian Schnabel
Writers: Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Composer: Paul Cantelon
Cast: Mathieu Almaric, 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
Schnabel’s remarkable film, relating the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, following a massive stroke that left him almost completely paralysed, wrote a book about his experiences solely using blinking as a means of communication, is a stunning, one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece. Iain.Stott
