Fresno Filmworks

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • with short film LIGHT YEARS
  • Friday, April 18, 2008
  • 7 p.m.
  • The Tower Theatre
  • 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
  • $15 General Admission
  • Includes admission to Opening Night Reception
  • buy tickets →

A gloriously unlocked experience, with some of the freest and most creative uses of the camera and some of the most daring, cruel, and heartbreaking emotional explorations that have appeared in recent movies.

David Denby

New Yorker

Here is the life force at its most insistent, lashing out against fate with stubborn resolve. And also with lust, hunger, humor and all of the other notes that this man once played so easily.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Ann Hornaday

Washington Post


Watch the Trailer

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Synopsis

The remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a successful and charismatic editor-in-chief of French Elle, who believes he is living his life to its absolute fullest when a sudden stroke leaves him in a life-altered state. While the physical challenges of Bauby’s fate leave him with little hope for the future, he begins to discover how his life’s passions, his rich memories and his newfound imagination can help him achieve a life without boundaries.

http://www.thedivingbellandthebutterfly-themovie.com

Directed by Julian Schnabel
France, 2007
112 minutes, PG-13



Companion Short Film

  • LIGHT YEARS

  • USA, Richard Martin

  • 15 minutes, English

  • With special appearances
  • Four relationships spanning the four corners of the globe are put to the ultimate test when they learn the world may end in eight minutes – the duration of time it takes light to travel from the sun to the Earth. Each is finally forced to confront the most trying dynamics of their relationship in order to reconcile differences and face Earth’s final moments: with love and without fear; but, most importantly, together.

  • http://www.lightyearsmovie.com