Original lang.			French / English
Country			France / U.S.A.
Genre			Drama
Rating			PG
Parents			Not recommended for young children
Length			1:51
Director			Julian Schnabel
Writer			Jean-Dominique Bauby Ronald Harwood
Company			Alliance Vivafilm
Starring			Mathieu Amalric Emmanuelle Seigner Marie-Josée Croze Anne Consigny Patrick Chesnais Niels Arestrup Show more... Mathieu Amalric Emmanuelle Seigner Marie-Josée Croze Anne Consigny Patrick Chesnais Niels Arestrup Olatz Lopez Garmendia Jean-Pierre Cassel Marina Hands Max von Sydow Isaach De Bankolé Emma de Caunes Jean-Philippe Écoffey Gérard Watkins Nicolas Le Riche

Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the editor of Elle France, suffered a stroke that left his body completely paralyzed, except for his left eye, while his mind remained unaffected. Despite his affliction, suffered in 1995 when he was 43, Bauby used his eye to blink out a memoir, letter by letter, then died two days after it was published. The book describes his pre-stroke life, what it was like to be a prisoner inside his useless body and imagined journeys to exotic places he'd never visited.