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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Julian Schnabel |
| Stars: |
Mathieu Amalric |
| Actors: |
Max Von Sydow |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Drama |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
786936750119 |
| Release Date: |
2007 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 52min |
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Languages
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| Release Language: |
English (Subtitled) |
| Original Language: |
French |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 52min
Release Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment (April 29, 2008)
UPC: 786936750119 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Ronald Harwood |
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Professional Reviews
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(11/30/2007, Kenneth Turan): "[The] imaginative and sensitive film, starring France's gifted Mathieu Amalric, is simultaneously uplifting and melancholy, suffused with an unexpected sense of possibility as much as the inevitable sense of loss." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Celebrated painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's third feature finds him reaching new artistic heights with this audacious and personal biopic, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name. The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable "locked in" syndrome at the age of 43. Bauby's only way of communicating with the outside world was by blinking with one eye, and after several dedicated helpers--a string of impossibly beautiful women (Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Olatz Lopez Garamendia, Anne Consigny)--helped him to speak through this seemingly irrelevant gesture, he began to produce the words that would form his memoir. Along the way, as he swam in and out of consciousness, memories from his past swelled into the present, resulting in a cinematic experience that is at once heartbreaking and hopeful. Schnabel somehow manages to convey Bauby's inte... |
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