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.
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Verdict: Break Even
> Julian Schnabel (Director)
> Janusz Kamiński (Director of Photography)
> Stéphane Gluck (First Assistant Director)
> Mathilde Cavillan (Second Assistant Director)
> Lucie Wagner (Assistant Director Trainee)
> Sébastien Marziniak (Assistant Director Trainee)
> Laurent Soulet (Casting Director)
> Roland Savoye (Underwater Director of Photography)
> Ronald Harwood (Screenplay)
> Jean-Dominique Bauby (Book)
