After an initial rather over-optimistic analysis from one doctor, a neurologist explains that he has locked-in syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which the patient is almost completely physically paralyzed, but remains mentally normal. The film opens as Bauby wakes from his three-week coma in a hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, France. The first third of the film is told from the main character's, Jean-Dominique Bauby ( Mathieu Amalric), or Jean-Do as his friends call him, first person perspective. It ranks in BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. Several critics later listed it as one of the best films of its decade. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, and the César Awards, and received four Oscar nominations. Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir of the same name, the film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ( French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a 2007 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Ronald Harwood.
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