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Butterfly and the Diving Bell (Part I)

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Duilawyer

Easily the best movie of the year. It may be one of the best movies I have ever seen. I am one hour in, and it is great, the cast is excellent and exquisite to look at. And yes, it has the Dutch Terrorist from Utrecht from the movie Munich, as the sweet therapist who devises a system for him to communicate. She must steal hearts by the hundreds, and the speech therapist who teaches him to blow kisses toward her. Anyway, the medical miracle the doctors perform of first realizing he is in this frozen body and then ways to get around it, is a tribute to doctors, speech therapists, the medical profession, and Bouby.

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Butterfly and the Diving Bell (Part II). Five stars out of five - Duilawyer 21:03:21 02/18/08 (3)
Best movie of the year, five stars out of five. Astounding acting by all players, I don't know any of their names, Max is great as always!!!!! The writing is stellar, (my French got a great workout). This movie is so cerebral, so moving it shames all the shoot em up action pictures that it competes with. No Country for Old Men, which I liked, turns into a dumb cowboy movie compared to this philosophical work on life, death, freedom, love mortality, parenthood, identity, medical wonders, etc. Doesn't hurt it has the most beautiful women ever, boy do they put to shame Julia and Sandra B.
- Best of year for me too... - Harmonia 01:36:59 02/19/08 (1)
  Saw it again last night in a theater...even more rivetting second time around. Who'da thought trendy NY painter Julian Schnabel would turn out to be such a profoundly delicate and humane movie director??? And that screenwriter Ronald Harwood, about whom I have decidedly mixed feelings, found the perfect structure and POV for telling Bauby's story? This is the most beautiful and imaginative movie I've seen all year. It delivers the goods.
  Schnabel is nominated for a directing Oscar, which he's unlikely to win. Harwood won the Bafta and is also nominated for an adapted screenplay Oscar, Janusz Kaminsky is deservingly nommed for cinematography and Juliette Welfling for editing, brilliant work all. The movie should have been nominated for best pic too (Michael Clayton??? Ya gotta be kidding.) All the performances are superb, and it's a shame Mathieu Amalric wasn't nominated, along with Max Von Sydow, who is astonishing as Bauby's father.
  Amalric does more with one eye than many actors do with their entire bodies. He's so subtle, inhabits the spirit of Bauby so honestly, that you don't even realize what you've seen until the movie is over...he's that believable. And Von Sydow broke my heart. Period.
  
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  - I agree with you 107%.. nt - Duilawyer 17:02:32 02/19/08 (0)
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- and they're French... - dave c 21:29:11 02/18/08 (0)
  ... or will Americans call them freedoms now?
  Glad you enjoyed it so much as it seems to me it does the near impossible for a movie and takes a completely still subject and makes it rivetting.
  And yes the women are beautiful as Bouby notices repeatedly throughout.

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