Home What's On DVD Reviews

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (12)

Jun 7 2008 By Graham Young

BASED on a true story, this astonishing film is based on a first-person book called Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (1997).

Having suffered a stroke, Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby wakes up to find he can only move one eye (a point of view he called the butterfly) while his body feels like it's trapped in a diving bell.

Shot mostly from Bauby's perspective in bed for the first half, this is an astonishingly claustrophobic yet invigorating insight into one of the most traumatic of all illnesses.

Also to buy for £19.99, with extras including a 'cinematic vision' featurette, all teenagers should be made to watch this film before they're let loose with Juno.

News AlertsForums

Read more DVD Reviews

The Mist (15)

ORIGINALLY published as a novella in 1980, Stephen King’s story was apparently inspired by a supermarket visit with his son when the author imagined a prehistoric bird flapping around inside. Now it’s a full-blown movie. Read

Speed Racer (PG)

HOLLYWOOD returns to the race track again after similar films like Sylvester Stallone’s Driven, Will Ferrell’s Talladega Nights and Pixar’s animated Cars Read

Site Tools