Showing March 11th 2009 at Ripon Leisure Centre
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)
Director: Julian Schnabel
France 2006 Drama
111 min
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, left entirely paralysed
except for his left eyelid following a stroke.
Nevertheless he managed to write a best selling book about his experience,
and the film examines his world and that of others around him.
"This superb film recreates the courageous, unsentimental example of a visionary
human being…" "..a joyful, un-self-pitying affirmation of life.."
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