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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

film by Schnabel [2007]

Also known as: “Le Scaphandre et le papillon”

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…Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Lou Reed’s Berlin. The former, which won two Golden Globe Awards—one for best director and the other for best foreign-language film—concerns a style-magazine editor who suffers a stroke, which leaves him almost completely paralyzed, and dictates his memoirs…
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