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.
as Jean-Dominique Bauby
as Céline Desmoulins
as Henriette Durand
as Claude
as Dr. Lepage
as Roussin
as Marie Lopez
as Father Lucien
as Joséphine
as Papinou
as Laurent
as Empress Eugenia
as Doctor Mercier
as Doctor Cocheton
as Ninjinski
as Théophile
as Céleste
as Hortense
as Betty
as Madame Bauby
as Joubert
as Diane
as Inès
as Mannequin
as Mannequin
as Mannequin
as Himself
as Fashion Photographer
