7.8/10
NETFLIX Rating : 3.8
IMDB Rating : 8
FD Smart Rating : 7.8
Synopsis : Mathieu Amalric stars as author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke in 1995 that rendered him mute and paralyzed.
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Patrick Chesnais , Niels Arestrup , Anne Consigny , Marie-Josee Croze , Mathieu Amalric , Max von Sydow , Olatz Lopez Garmendia , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Marina Hands , Emmanuelle Seigner
European Spanish , French , Spanish , Brazilian Portuguese , French [Original]
European Spanish , Spanish , Brazilian Portuguese , French , English
Biography, Drama
2007
1h47m
Suitable for age 12 or older.
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are in tact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Céline Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children; Inès, his current lover; and his aged father who he calls Papinou. Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette. Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate using a system where he spells out words: she reads out the letters of the alphabet in descending order of their use in the French language, and he blinks his functioning left eye when she reaches the appropriate letter. Although frustrating at start, he learns to communicate effectively but slowly using this method, so much so that with the help of Claude, a full time translator, he decides on the monumental and seemingly impossible task to keep to his pre-injury commitment of writing a book, changing its focus to life in his current state.