The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (12a) - Julian Schnabel
and the overheated cinema… this was shaping up to the be the best film of the year. left ‘locked in’ after a major stroke, this cinematic adaptation by plate gluing uber-dollar artist and renaissance man Schnabel, of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s remarkable account of his life in his figurative diving bell, Le Scaphanre et le papillon, from the off. This movie hits the tear gas whilst asking us to connect with the life of the inert Bauby unable to move anything but his left eye. From this position of terrifying prison Bauby dictated the source novel
