Julian Schnabel's film is based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir, dictated by blinking after a stroke left him with locked-in syndrome.
Book· 1997· Nonfiction
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, left with locked-in syndrome after a stroke, dictated the book letter by letter by blinking his left eyelid, and describes life inside a body that no longer moves.