The Diving Bell & the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)

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The Hollywood Reporter | Ray BennettAdd Critic to Favorites

Director Julian Schnabel and screenwriter Ronald Harwood have performed a small miracle in adapting for the screen Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

At the end we are left with the reflection that human consciousness is the great miracle of evolution, and all the rest (sight, sound, taste, hearing, smell, touch) are simply a toolbox that consciousness has supplied for itself.Read the full review

Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites

Thanks to Bauby's courageous and honest writing, and Schnabel's poetic interpretation, what could have been a portrait of impotence and suffering becomes a lively exploration of consciousness and a soaring ode to liberation.Read the full review