Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- dying and death
- based on novel or book
- writing
- female lover
- editor-in-chief
- psychological stress
- based on true story
- patient
- disabled
- medical drama
The bill
Mathieu Amalric
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigner
Céline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée Croze
Henriette Durand
Anne Consigny
Claude
- Patrick Chesnais — Dr. Lepage
- Niels Arestrup — Roussin
- Olatz López Garmendia — Marie Lopez
- Jean-Pierre Cassel — Father Lucien
- Marina Hands — Joséphine
- Max von Sydow — Papinou
- Isaach de Bankolé — Laurent
- Emma de Caunes — Empress Eugenia
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey — Doctor Mercier
- Gérard Watkins — Doctor Cocheton
- Nicolas Le Riche — Ninjinski
- Directed
- Julian Schnabel
- Written
- Ronald Harwood
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,300 ratings
- Studio
- Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
