NYFF: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
With only a few hours of sleep after last night's midnight screening of The Orphanage, I struggled to get up early to catch my next film at the New York Film Festival -- American artist-turned-director Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon). By the end credits, I was glad I got up early. For me Diving Bell is probably the best film I'll see this year. It's that good.
The picture is based on the real-life memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle magazine, who suffered a massive stroke at age 43 and was left completely paralyzed. The only way he could communicate with others was by blinking his left eye which is how he composed his memoir.
The film is incredibly moving, inspiring, and at times very funny. Schnabel uses many innovative and creative camera techniques to help us feel what it is like to be in Bauby's "locked-in" state. Diving Bell comes out in December but in the meantime check out the trailer.
DLM
The picture is based on the real-life memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle magazine, who suffered a massive stroke at age 43 and was left completely paralyzed. The only way he could communicate with others was by blinking his left eye which is how he composed his memoir.
The film is incredibly moving, inspiring, and at times very funny. Schnabel uses many innovative and creative camera techniques to help us feel what it is like to be in Bauby's "locked-in" state. Diving Bell comes out in December but in the meantime check out the trailer.
DLM
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