Bonjour! French Club is having a showing of the movie Le Scaphandre et Le Papillon. There will be English subtitles. The showing will be in UNIV 213 on Thursday, Nov. 5 @ 7 pm!
Movie description: At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle, was a man defined by his passion for life. In December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. In these few bewildering moments, his life was forever changed. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 days later to find himself the victim of a rare locked-in syndrome — mentally alert but permanently deprived of movement and speech.
Refusing to accept his fate, Bauby determined to escape the paralysis of his diving bell and free the butterflies of his dreams and imagination. The only way he could express his frustration, however, was by moving his left eye. These movements and blinking a code representing letters of the alphabet became his sole means of communication. (Based on a true story.)
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