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Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Scaphandre et le Papillon, Le)
[cert 12A, 112 mins]
At the age of forty-three, Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffers a stroke that paralyses his entire body, save his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir one letter at a time, Bauby describes the aspects of his interior world.
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Max Von Sydow
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers
Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies
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