The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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French	Le scaphandre et le papillon
Directed by	Julian Schnabel
Screenplay by	Ronald Harwood
Based on	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Produced by	Kathleen Kennedy Jon Kilik
Starring	Mathieu Amalric Emmanuelle Seigner Marie-Josée Croze Anne Consigny Max von Sydow
Cinematography	Janusz Kamiński
Edited by	Juliette Welfling
Music by	Paul Cantelon
Production companies	Pathé Renn Production Canal+ The Kennedy/Marshall Company France 3 Cinéma
Distributed by	Pathé Distribution (France/United Kingdom) Miramax Films (United States)
Release dates	22 May 2007 (2007-05-22) (Cannes Film Festival) 23 May 2007 (2007-05-23) (France) 30 November 2007 (2007-11-30) (United States)
Running time	112 minutes
Countries	France United States
Language	French
Budget	$12.8 million[1]
Box office	$19.8 million[2]

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a 2007 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Ronald Harwood. Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir of the same name, the film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. Bauby is played by Mathieu Amalric.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, and the César Awards, and received four Oscar nominations. Several critics later listed it as one of the best films of its decade.^[3] It ranks in BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.