Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

• Pathé Renn Productions
• France 3 Cinéma
• Mathieu Amalric
• Emmanuelle Seigner
• Marie-Josée Croze
• Anne Consigny
• Patrick Chesnais
• Niels Arestrup
• Olatz López Garmendia
• Jean-Pierre Cassel