![]() ![]() ![]() Saying more about the plot would spoil the wonderful experience of watching "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". With the help of a speech therapist, he struggles to write his memoirs, by blinking letter by letter and letting her write what he wants to say. ![]() His mental faculties are intact, but he can't move anything but his left eyelid. This time, though, his "artist" is a successful 43 year-old man, Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a bon-vivant who becomes a victim of the so-called "locked-in syndrome" after a sudden stroke. ![]() His new film, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", surpasses his previous efforts and is nothing short of a masterpiece, for lack of a better word. His second film, "Before Night Falls" (2000), was even better, and told the story of Cuban poet/novelist Reinaldo Arenas (the magnificent Javier Bardem). His feature debut, "Basquiat" (1996), was an interesting portrait of the troubled painter (played by Jeffrey Wright). American painter turned director Julian Schnabel loves biopics of extraordinary artists. ![]()
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