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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
a film by Julian Schnabel
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Preview Screening, Friday 18 January, 8.30pm at Ciné lumière
a film by Julian Schnabel
Preview Screening, Friday 18 January, 8.30pm at Ciné lumière
Ciné lumière is pleased to announce its preview screening of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on Friday 18th January, ahead of the film’s general release on 8 February. The film will be shown in tandem with the director Julian Schnabel’s earlier film, a profile of the artist Basquiat.
Synospis:
On 8 December 1995, at age 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, inventive and charismatic editor-in-chief of the French magazine Elle suffered a massive stroke. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 days later to find himself a victim of ‘locked-in syndrome’ – mentally alert but a prisoner inside his own body, his only means of communicating with the outside world the blinking of his left eye.
From his hospital bed in Berck-sur-mer, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Bauby composed a book consisting of reflections on his condition and excursions into the realms of his memory, imagination and dreams. Using a special code based on the order of the most frequently-used letters in the French alphabet, and blinking one letter at a time, the book took Bauby 200,000 blinks to write, each word taking approximately two minutes. The code unlocked the prison of his body, which Bauby called his ‘diving bell’, and travelled the borderless regions of freedom that he called ‘the butterfly’. Finally published in March 1997, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly became an international best-seller, selling 150,000 copies in its first week of publication in France.
This is the basis of Julian Schnabel’s enthralling new film, which earned him the Best Director award at Cannes this year. Starring the marvellous Mathieu Amalric, with supporting turns from Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze and Max von Sydow, Diving Bell is a powerful meditation on the nature of visual perception, as well as a celebration of the emergence of personal artistic expression.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)
France| 2007 | col | 112 mins | dir. Julian Schnabel, with Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Max Von Sydow | cert. 12
Synospis:
On 8 December 1995, at age 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, inventive and charismatic editor-in-chief of the French magazine Elle suffered a massive stroke. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 days later to find himself a victim of ‘locked-in syndrome’ – mentally alert but a prisoner inside his own body, his only means of communicating with the outside world the blinking of his left eye.
From his hospital bed in Berck-sur-mer, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Bauby composed a book consisting of reflections on his condition and excursions into the realms of his memory, imagination and dreams. Using a special code based on the order of the most frequently-used letters in the French alphabet, and blinking one letter at a time, the book took Bauby 200,000 blinks to write, each word taking approximately two minutes. The code unlocked the prison of his body, which Bauby called his ‘diving bell’, and travelled the borderless regions of freedom that he called ‘the butterfly’. Finally published in March 1997, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly became an international best-seller, selling 150,000 copies in its first week of publication in France.
This is the basis of Julian Schnabel’s enthralling new film, which earned him the Best Director award at Cannes this year. Starring the marvellous Mathieu Amalric, with supporting turns from Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze and Max von Sydow, Diving Bell is a powerful meditation on the nature of visual perception, as well as a celebration of the emergence of personal artistic expression.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)
France| 2007 | col | 112 mins | dir. Julian Schnabel, with Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Max Von Sydow | cert. 12
Time and date: 8.30pm, Friday 18 January; preceded by Basquiat at 6.00pm
Venue:
Institut français
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
Tel: 020 7073 1350
www.institut-francais.org.uk
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