(The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Director: Julian Schnabel
Director: Julian Schnabel
Year: 2007
Book by: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Adapted by: Ronald Harwood
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Great directing, telling the story visually. Mathieu Amalric is great. Loved the references to Truffaut's "400 Blows" (the driving through Paris sequence borrows the music and angles taken from a car shooting up at the monuments and buildings passing by). Actually, there is a lot of Truffaut in this film thematically as well, the helpless girl-obsessed boy who needs approval, and the way the women are treated cinematically here owes a lot to Truffaut. The camera caresses them visually as the male lead suffers with desire to touch, to kiss... he can't resist the women in his life, much like Truffaut's revisited character, Antoine Doinel.
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