Jean-Jacques Beineix's 'Locked-In Syndrome' (1997) and Julian Schnabel's 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (2007)
Her Head in Films
English - May 03, 2017 05:31 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsTV & Film Arts film cinema films movies tv & film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, I discuss two films about Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was an editor at Elle Magazine in France and suffered a stroke in 1995 at the age of 43. The stroke plunged him into a rare condition known as locked-in syndrome. He wrote his memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by blinking his left eyelid.
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Original artwork by Dhiyanah Hassan
Full show notes:
The Guardian article about the depiction of Bauby's girlfriend in Schnabel's film
Julian Schnabel's interview with Charlie Rose in 2007