Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

• DirectorJulian Schnabel
• Release23 May 2007
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 52m
• Budget$14,000,020
• Revenue$19,777,647
• Rate
  

  7.575
  1230 reviews
• Productions

  Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company