The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“"The Diving Bell," true to its hero and its literary source, is neither morbid nor mawkish. Propped up in a wheelchair, able to communicate only by blinking his left eye, he remains a sensualist, a bon vivant and a keen literary wit. But never a saint. Before his stroke Jean-Dominique led a life of glamour, pleasure and self-indulgence, for which he never apologizes.”