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PATHE RENN PRODUCTION presents Y L F R E T T U B E H T VING BELL AND THE DI A film by JULIAN SCHNABEL Based on the book Le Scaphandre et le papillon, by JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY (Editions Robert Laffont, 1997) starring MATHIEU AMALRIC, EMMANUELLE SEIGNER, MARIE-JOSEE CROZE, ANNE CONSIGNY, PATRICK CHESNAIS, NIELS ARESTRUP, OLATZ LOPEZ GARMENDIA, JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL, MARINA HANDS, EMMA DE CAUNES, ISAAC DE BANKOLE, AGATHE DE LA FONTAINE AND MAX VON SYDOW International Sales: Pathé Pictures International Kent House, Market Place London W1W 8AR T: +44 (0) 207 462 4427 F: +44 (0) 207 436 7891 E: [email protected] W: www.pathepicturesinternational.co.uk Pathé Pictures International in Cannes: Résidences du Grand Hotel 45 La Croisette, 4th Floor, Ibis, Apt. 4A 06400 Cannes T: 33 (0) 4 93 38 49 58 F: 33 (0) 4 93 38 46 43 E: [email protected] W: www.pathepicturesinternational.co.uk International PR: Premier PR Villa Ste Hélène 45, Bd d’Alsace 06400 Cannes T: +33 (0)4 93 99 03 02 F: +33 (0)4 93 99 05 51 E: [email protected] [email protected] US PR: Michael Lawson mPRm Public Relations T: 33 (0) 6 84 14 26 69 E: [email protected] 5 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY “Had I been blind and deaf or did it take the harsh light of disaster for me to find my true nature ?” asks Jean-Dominique Bauby, addressing both himself and all of us. Does it take locked-in-syndrome to make a human being conscious, to make others empathize? Do we have to get sick for the angels to appear and help us? My father died at 92 and he had never really been sick in his life. He was happily married to my mother for more than 60 years. Most people would sign up for his life immediately but, having never been sick, he was unprepared and terrified of death. He lived with my wife and me at the end of his life but I failed to save him from that fear. Life cannot just be pain, sex chaos and nothingness. There must be something else. When Jean-Dominique Bauby was a healthy, strapping, intelligent member of society, he was a qualified author. He was nothing more than a working writer conforming to social success. Through his paralysis and rebirth as an eye – the point of view of what he called the butterfly – he searches his life and life’s paradoxes accomplishing a work that has had a profound effect on anyone who has read it. “My life was a string of near-misses… the women I was unable to love, the chances of joy I let drift away… a race who’s result I knew beforehand but failed to bet on the winner.” An introspective look into life. A chance at consciousness. This is the story of all of us, who surely do face death and sickness. But if we look, we can find meaning and beauty here. I wanted this film to be a tool, like his book, a self-help device that can help you handle your own death. That’s what I was hoping for, that’s why I did it. Julian Schnabel 6 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 7 PRODUCTION NOTES PRODUCTION NOTES One year and two months in room 119 of the Berck Maritime Hospital, his “bedridden travel notes” were complete. He died ten days after its publication. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) was published by Les Éditions Robert Laffont in 1997 and was a great success. It was translated in many languages and readers are universally moved by a story that might have happened to any one of us. Jean-Dominique Bauby, the Chief Editor of an important fashion magazine, Elle, had been a seducer of women, in the prime of life. He'd led several lives and succeeded in them all. He'd taken care of his health and his appearance. The cerebro-vascular accident was as sudden and unjust as fate itself. And he did, in fact, see it as a sign of destiny. He had lived his life as a journalist with frenetic passion and had never taken the measure of what was truly essential. His children. He can't shake this feeling of guilt. Almost a year before, he had left his home, his children and their mother, hadn't yet had time to really start a new life. And it stopped suddenly on December 9th, 1995. Before his stroke, he had signed a book contract with Les Éditions Robert Laffont, to do a modern adaptation, the feminine version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Such a sacrilege might just explain his terrible punishment. “You don't mess around with a masterpiece.” Jean-Dominique sees himself as Noirtier de Villefort, a dark figure, the repository of grave secrets, condemned to silence and trapped in a wheelchair, communicating only with his eyes. Bauby's book is a veritable literary act. The power of his story makes a writer out of him. A tragic destiny turned him into an artist. Photo : Emiliano Fernandez The film begins like the book. A white, blinding light, a dance of color in soft focus. Strangers faces appear, talking to us, to him. Jean-Dominique Bauby learns he is in a hospital, hooked up to machines to help him breathe. A man dressed as a doctor comes towards him. He gives him a frank assessment of the situation. Bauby has had a cerebro-vascular accident and has been in a coma for several months. He tries to answer, but no one seems to hear him. The doctor explains he is suffering from an extremely rare condition. “Locked-in syndrome” compromises the brain stem, which acts as relay between the brain and the rest of the nervous system. The patient is entirely paralyzed, as if locked inside himself, his whole body trapped by a sort of diving bell. In Bauby's case, only his left eyelid is functional. It is his last window on the world and his only method of communication. One blink for yes, two for no. The brain itself, on the other hand, is in perfect working order. Jean-Dominique Bauby can hear, understand, remember, but he can no longer speak. Besides the left eyelid, there are two things that still function - imagination and memory. The butterfly. As Jean-Dominique Bauby's interior dialog swings from funny to tragic, from wisdom to revolt and back again, he decides to tell his story. Not as true-life interview “content”, but as a book, as a novel. He memorizes the sentences of his story beforehand, then, using the system developed by his speech therapist, dictates them letter by letter, by blinking when the correct letter is pronounced out loud. 8 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL The story of Jean-Dominique Bauby resembles that of an artist's life in the throes of a battle between himself and others. Sickness, like mental illness or genius, is a source of exclusion and misunderstanding. To escape his fate, to escape exterior constraint and human cruelty, one can only count on oneself. On intelligence, creativity and heroism. Through his writing, Jean-Dominique Bauby prolongs his life outside himself, outside his body. The power of dream and thought allows him to cross every border. He had extracted a promise from his wife to adapt the book for film, as accomplishment of this transcendence. But the singular quality and the authenticity of the The Diving Bell and the Butterfly precludes a classical, or “straight” adaptation. To bring such a moving novel to the screen requires a strong aesthetic sense and another look into the formal construction of film in an attempt to reinvent and tailor it to the needs of this story where the main character never speaks. When Kathleen Kennedy, associated with Dreamworks, purchased the rights to the book, she concentrated on that very problem. She signed Ronald Harwood (screenwriter on Roman Polanski's two most recent films, The Pianist and Oliver Twist) to write the screenplay. While maintaining the basic structure of the book, Harwood managed to pace the story between progress and immobility. Kennedy then had the idea of asking Julian Schnabel to make the movie - only he could film the interior voyage of Jean-Dominique Bauby. As it happens, Julian Schnabel had discovered the book in a very personal way, through a friend who has now passed on. He is most interested by the film's off-screen narrative technique - the audience is the main character's only confidant. No one in the film knows what's going on inside his head - only the reader or the viewer knows. Universal first took on the project. Then it finds its way to Pathé, who produced it with Jon Kilik, who has produced all of Julian Schnabel's films. Schnabel decided to shoot the film in French according to him, there is no other way. He chose French actors - starting with Mathieu Amalric, whom he had spotted in 1999 at the San Sebastian Film Festival in the film Fin août début septembre (Late August, Early September). When she worked with him in Steven Spielberg's Munich, Kathleen Kennedy immediately thought he would be good in the role. Julian Schnabel had already told her about him. The rest of the cast also corresponds to precise choices. Every role, without exception, is played by a well-known actor - Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Emma de Caunes, Isaach de Bankolé and Max Von Sydow are the principle players. The photography is executed by Janusz Kaminski, who worked on many Steven Spielberg films. Julian Schnabel decided to make this film not only because its subject matter fits in well with the rest of his work in film, but also because it resonated for him on a personal level. He was particularly moved by the relationship between Jean-Dominique Bauby and his father, and the scenes between those two characters are very moving. The formal challenge is also at the heart of the project. The first half is filmed from Jean-Dominique Bauby's point of view. The image is sometimes out-of-focus, sometimes brilliant and colorful, sometimes blinding and off-center. Julian Schnabel films like he paints, up close, to the skin, to the film itself. The eroticism in shots of mouths, thighs, necks makes one think of a detail from a painting. The sets, for all their strangeness and luxury, are magical. Jean-Dominique Bauby had named a certain spot in the Berck Maritime Hospital “Cinecitta”. He appreciated the poetic, offbeat charm of the place, the “imaginary geography” of a movie studio. Truly taking a position, Jean-Dominique's interior monolog is reconstituted by an off-screen 10 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 11 PRODUCTION NOTES narrative recorded as the film was shot. We live the experience along with him, in the same time and place. The music follows as we alternate between moments of disarray and moments of rebirth. Julian Schnabel believes that Jean-Dominique Bauby's life began after the accident, when he becomes aware of who he really is. He is reborn as a butterfly. The first part is first person. Through the reciting of the alphabet and the blinking of the left eyelid, Jean-Dominique Bauby can communicate with those around him. His word is first and foremost a sort of writing. “My first word is 'I'. I begin with myself.” Using this technique he can get outside himself, escape from his diving bell, come up from underwater. Roam the world, change the course of time, reach a wide audience. The second part is shot from the outside - the camera filming Jean-Dominique Bauby in his new life and showing that through his work as a writer he has found dignity and life. Mathieu Amalric's interpretation is unique - split between the mastery of a deformed body and the purely oral expression of emotion. Tragedy doesn't preclude humor, as absurd as it is necessary. This film is a lesson about life, not in the moralistic sense, but in the energy that it conveys. One must take advantage of every instant. Angie David THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY A film by JULIAN SCHNABEL Based on the book Le Scaphandre et le Papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby First published by Les Éditions Robert Laffont, 1997. Certain liberties have been taken in the screenplay with regard to some people in Jean-Dominique Bauby's entourage. 12 LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON un film de JULIAN SCHNABEL 13 LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON un film de JULIAN SCHNABEL E S A R I N T U L O M D P C F B V H G J Q Z Y X K W 14 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 15 INTERVIEW WITH JULIAN SCHNABEL INTERVIEW WITH JULIAN SCHNABEL How did this project come to you and why did you choose to bring Jean-Dominique Bauby's story to the screen ? I was very good friends with a man called Fred Hughes. He worked for Andy Warhol. He managed Andy Warhol’s Factory. And Fred used to live at 15 rue du Cherche-Midi where Andy Warhol also stayed. After Andy died, Fred - who had always had multiple sclerosis – got progressively worse until finally, he couldn’t come to Paris anymore and he had to stay in his apartment in New York. He lived on Lexington Avenue, around 90 th Street. And he ended up in his bed in the middle of his apartment, like Miss Havisham, he’d be lying there and I would go and read to him. He couldn’t speak anymore. He just lay there staring out of his eyes looking at me as I read. He had a nurse named Darin McCormack. And this man, Darin McCormack, gave me the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly because I used to read to Fred. I had always thought of maybe making a film about Fred because he had such an active life and then he was just stuck in his body. A few years ago my mother died when she was 89. And then my father. They were married for 60 years. My father, who had cancer since he was 83 and he was almost 92, had held it at bay because he was taking care of my mother. But now that she was gone… I lived in my studio where I paint. My father lived there too. It was Christmas time, I needed to take my children somewhere for their holydays and I needed somebody to watch my father because he couldn’t go with us. I called Darin McCormack. So he came to the house and he was in the room with my father. When the script arrived from Kathy Kennedy of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, my father was very scared of death and I thought if I could help him not to be scared… That’s the only thing I failed him in. He was terrified because he’d never been sick in his life. As it happens, I had written a script for the movie Perfume which was never used. But Bernd Eichinger, the man who owned the rights, didn’t want to make the movie I wanted to make. There is one thing that Grenouille had in common with Jean-Dominique Bauby. In both stories, the audience is the confidant of the main character. We know what’s going on in Grenouille’s head and we know what’s going on in Jean-Do’s head. There were many things I wanted to put into Perfume that I was able to put into this movie. I had the freedom. In one case the freedom of Grenouille's smell, in the other the freedom of Jean-Do's imagination. I could go through time, I could do whatever. So for me, as a filmmaker, as an artist, I thought it was a great opportunity to put whatever I wanted into the structure of a movie. I could make my own structure, my own language. If I could just go into his world, I could figure it out on the way. And I knew that I had to make the movie in France, in French, in the hospital. Because if I couldn’t do it in the hospital where he was, I don’t think I’d get the right feeling. And the way the story’s told, even if it’s a universal story, it was told by a French man. And I wanted to get the voice, I had to believe it myself. So I went to Berck and I looked at the hospital and the people were very nice there and they really wanted me to do this. Nobody wanted me to make this movie in French. The only person that really wanted me to do it in French was Jon 16 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL Kilik. Ron Harwood gave us a great script in English originally but I kept rewriting with the actors and in the situations and finding out more about things from Claude Mendibil, Anne-Marie Perrier, Bernard Chapuis… How did you discover Mathieu Amalric for the role of Jean-Dominique Bauby ? First Johnny Depp was supposed to make this movie with me. Tracy Jacobs, who is Johnny’s agent, talked with Kathy Kennedy. Johnny wanted to make the movie with me because we like to work together. I would've surrounded him with French people and he would've spoken French. And then he was very busy with the Pirates of the Caribbean and so he couldn't. Then Kathy Kennedy had an idea of Eric Bana or a different American actor. But some years ago, I was on the jury at the San Sebastian film festival and I saw a movie called Fin août, début septembre. We gave Jeanne Balibar the prize for best actress that year. But I remembered Mathieu Amalric. And I thought immediately, “I know who should play this role.” And I mentioned his name to Kathy, she was unaware of him. Time goes by. Then, two or three years later, they make Munich and she meets a young actor named Mathieu Amalric. And she comes back from France. “You know I met this French actor who’s really great. He could really do this. So we can do it in French.” I say, “What’s his name ? And she says. “Mathieu Amalric.” I say “Yes, that’s a great idea." I called him on the phone. We all kind of knew each other because Olivier Assayas and Jeanne Balibar came to visit me in New York years ago. Mathieu didn’t come with them at that time but he knew of me and I knew of him. So right away he came at Thanksgiving and we started to read the script together. And I knew if I was going to make this movie in French I didn’t want to be a tourist. My French isn’t perfect, but I would know my text. I broke it down and worked with every one of the actors and I went over the scenes and asked them, “What would you say in such and 17 INTERVIEW WITH JULIAN SCHNABEL such situation ?” Because the words have to come out of their mouths. So I rewrote it in a way, with everybody that was going to be in the film. And I found things. For example, Claude Mendibil told Anne Consigny that when she came into Jean-Do's room for the first time, the thing he said was “Pas de panique” [“Don't panic.”] And when Anne came in and we started to do the scene, she said that to me. I suggested we put the script away and include it. Another way I do it is like a painter. I’m in a place. I react to what’s around me. I noticed that the sea was going out 500 meters every day then would come back in. This pontoon would disappear in the water. And then it would appear again. And so I said “Okay.” There’s a picture of me carrying Mathieu Amalric on my shoulders putting him on top of this pontoon with the wheelchair. In the water. That shot was not scripted. And also the thing where the man is holding him in his arms in the pool. I just saw the pool there and I said “Okay, put him in there”. It looked like a Pietà. Daniel, the man who performs the scene, was Jean-Do's therapist. What relationship did you have to the book itself ? I went back to the book a lot. I loved that beautiful image of him looking up at the ceiling in the pool. I wanted to find a text to go with it. And I chose the part about the cocotte-minute. And then all of a sudden there was this other part about Eugenie that comes through. You know, when he says “Merde, it’s a dream.” She comes in and it keeps going. And she kisses him as if he could stand and then boom, he’s back in his chair. And he says, “Swimming up from the mist of a coma, you don’t have the luxury of having your dreams evaporate.” I thought that the difference between these two places was thinner and thinner. You couldn’t tell the difference between your dream life and reality. When you’re sick, it’s like that. It was like that with 18 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL my father. My father started to… I asked Darin McCormack to write down what my father said. We’re all going to get sick someday, we’re all going to be in that situation with our point of view looking out. And we’re going to be the center of attention and then we’re going to be invisible. It applies to anybody, whether you knew someone who was sick or you get sick or when we’re going to get old, it’s just about consciousness. In a sense, what Jean-Do was saying is, “When I was healthy I wasn’t alive, I wasn’t there, I was quite superficial. But when I came back, le point de vue du papillon [the butterfly's point of view], I was reborn just as a I.” Then he could be a great writer. Do you consider that Jean-Dominique's story can be compared with the life of an artist ? Yes, obviously, because writing was the thing that saved him. His interior life came alive because he started to write the book. So it’s about the process of making art. The book gave him a raison d’être, gave life to him, gave life to his family. Thanks to the book, they feel like he’s alive in some way. It’s a way of dealing with their grief. 19 INTERVIEW WITH JULIAN SCHNABEL And as for the rest of the cast? Besides Mathieu Amalric, how did you choose the rest of the cast, all of them French? I love Emmanuelle Seigner in Bitter Moon. I thought she gave the best performance in France that year and I always thought she was an under-appreciated actress. I love Marie-Josée Croze in The Barbarian Invasions and also she was great in Munich. I saw Niels Arestrup in De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté [The Beat That My Heart Skipped] and I thought “He’s got to be in my movie !” I saw the film I’m Not Here For You To Love with Patrick Chesnais and Anne Consigny. I wanted them both to be in the movie. When I met Marina Hands I thought she was adorable and I wanted to give her a role that wasn't like the things she usually does. And I was very lucky to have Max von Sydow who was brilliant in the movie. He actually played older, he’s not that old. And to have Jean-Pierre Cassel in the film playing two roles was a great privilege for me. I just loved him. And everybody was so nice and so cooperative and they were doing these little parts. I felt like I wasn’t offering them enough. Enough time, enough space on the film. Emma de Caunes, Anne Alvaro, Zinedine Soualem, they were just so generous with me. And Georges, the waiter from La Maison du Caviar, plays one of the France Telecom employees. In your work as an artist, both painter and filmmaker, what is the place of literature ? Film making is rewriting, all the time. Editing is rewriting. When I’m painting I don’t interpret, I don’t transfer anything. I just do it and that’s it. There’s no translating going on. In writing there’s no translating if you’re writing, say, a novel. You're not translating. But if you’re going to write something and make it into a movie, then you’re translating a text into another form. Then once it’s translated, you can respond like you’re painting. The colorful and blurred image, the deframing, the footage edited from archive pictures, the external and subjective camera, are all these technical means close to your work as a painter ? It’s not deframing, it’s framing. I found when I was making the last movie that most of the time, when the cameraman put his camera down and I looked in the monitor that was the most interesting moment. So I said “Could you just put the camera down ? I want the movie to look like that.” I don’t like when I see people composing things. I want what serves the movie. Like Jean-Do didn't drive a convertible. I put him in a convertible because I wanted to see Paris. I wanted to see the trees. And you know we also have the soundtrack from Les 400 coups (The 400 Blows). And if you make it black and white and look at the buildings, you would think you were seeing the credits from Les 400 coups. Which I like. It’s a lot of fun for me. In this movie, the hero can’t move. When someone is talking to you, it doesn’t mean that you have to look at them. All he has is his eye. If he doesn’t want to hear what they’re saying he can look away. And then I thought “Okay I can cut people’s heads off because he can’t see.” So I could do whatever I wanted. That gave me a lot of freedom. How did your collaboration with the director of photography work? This film called for unusual visual treatment. I tell them what I want, they think I’m crazy at first. Like I took my glasses off and I put them on the camera. So when you move, it’s in focus and then out of focus. It’s on the camera. For the scene where they sew up his eye, I put latex on the lens and I sewed it up. Janusz Kaminski is a great DP, he’s inspired. The camera operator needed a little bit of pushing. He's very talented, he just needed to believe in me. I was asking people to do things they never did before. A particular treatment of the image was necessary to sublimate the interior life. I used a swing and tilt lens, which means that part of it is out of focus and part of it is in focus. So it made the whole film feel like it had a texture, it had a body, there was a skin to it. The whole screen was a skin and that’s how I see painting. I made the room. I made the color. I build the room curved, the ceiling, and put that piece of fluorescent light in the corner. Because some people can look out into the world and some people can look into the corner of their room. You can find the whole world in the corner of a room. Or inside of yourself. The Berck Maritime Hospital is an extraordinary movie set. You said you couldn't imagine shooting anywhere but on the true-life locations of the story. Did you enjoy shooting in France ? The place looks like an Antonioni set. I saw that terrace and I thought of L’Aventurra and I thought of all these other movies by Antonioni. Just the horizontality, I liked that. I was thinking about how Jean-Do would be seen. I had a great time and the French people have been wonderful to me. I love eating at “Le Duc” and this restaurant “Napolitano”. I shot a scene in “Le Duc.” I wanted to find the best seafood restaurant in Paris. I tried not to be a tourist. What’s nice is that I’m 55 years-old and when I was younger and I lived in France, I wanted something, I wanted to have a show in a gallery. I wanted to meet somebody. This time I came, I didn’t want anything. I just came back like Rip Van Winkle, like I slept for twenty years and just came back to the same place where I lived. Found my house. The guy in the restaurant across the street was just a little older. Everything was almost still in its place and I felt like a ghost. But a welcomed ghost. As a painter, you don’t really meet people every day where you form profound relationships with them. I mean working together does that. People know your art, they’re your friends. But making this film, I formed these relationships with all these people that were so important to me and so beautiful. I guess that’s another reason why people like making movies. I don’t do it all the time, the last one I made was in 1999. I’m very close friends with Javier Bardem and the people that worked with me there. And Benicio del Toro, who was in Basquiat as well. I had a great experience with the people who worked with me here. I called one electriician Tarkovsky and another guy Artaud. I had some wonderful helpers on this shoot, like Michel Eric who did the production design. We were very close. Soundtrack plays an important part, as it does in all your films. It corresponds to your personal taste and gives the film a modern punk connotation. I like Bach and I like the Dirtbombs. In this film there is music from Lolita by Nelson Riddle, the music from Les 400 coups and Nino Rota, from U2 and Tom Waits. I keep listening to Tom's last album, Orphans. I choose what I like and what suits the scene. And Paul Cantelon, who wrote piano music for the film. He was a child prodigy and then he got hit by a car when he was 12. He had total amnesia. And then at 17 he started to get his memory back and he started playing the piano again. He plays this song for his mother, also a pianist. He said, “Listen to this mom, I just made this one up.” She said, “Oh Paul that’s Bach”. 20 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL The credits are composed of X-rays. What does that mean ? It means that we’re stuck inside of our bodies, all of us. There’s another level. We are co-existing with things we never think about. And we’re all subjects, like he is, we all have our X-rays. These X-rays come from a building that was a hundred meters away from the hospital. This building was closed for years. It belonged to Doctor Ménard to whom it was given by some rich man whose son was in the hospital at the beginning of the 20 th century. And then Ménard's granddaughter, or rather his granddaughter-in-law took me there when I finished shooting two weeks early. It was like going into Miss Havisham’s place. I found these dusty X-rays, I thought they looked like paintings. And I’m actually going to make some paintings with them. I liked the way the letters were stamped on them. In a photo given to him by his father, Jean-Dominique Bauby as a child is portrayed by Elvis Polanski. The picture is also the poster for the film. Elvis Polanski is a song-and-dance man. He was in the car with me singing Singin' in the Rain. I said “Can you do that in French ?” He sings, Je chante sous la pluie… I thought to show the little boy singing and dancing, it’s even more tragic when you see him as an adult, absolutely paralyzed. And Elvis was great. I love him. He’s brilliant. What is your relationship with spirituality ? In the book, Jean-Do seems to believe in countless gods, people pray for him in all the religions of the world, he who had been an atheist. I'm thinking of the scenes in Lourdes in particular. I’m not interested in organized religion. But if it helps people, I don't mind. I would like to be more spiritual. I would like to believe. I believe in the good, I believe in my father, I believe in myself and in my own limits. I believe in goodness. I believe that we can, that we should treat people better. What comes out of the film is that the amount of empathy that this man was shown shows how people can be good to each other. I like that. I believe people can be good to each other and patient and giving, the way these women gave him their time, really tried to help him. They cared about what they were doing and it wasn’t about them. I like that. That’s spirituality. 26 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 27 FILMOGRAPHIES MATHIEU AMALRIC 2007 L’Ennemi public numéro 1 Jean-François Richet Un conte de Noël Arnaud Desplechin 2006 Le Rêve de la nuit d'avant Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Un secret Claude Miller L'Histoire de Richard O. Damien Odoul La Question humaine Nicolas Klotz The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Julian Schnabel (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Le Grand appartement Pascal Thomas Fragments sur la grâce Vincent Dieutre 2005 Michou d'Auber Thomas Gilou The Singer (Quand j'étais chanteur) Xavier Giannoli Marie-Antoinette Sofia Coppola Munich Steven Spielberg I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed Serge Le Péron (J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka) 2004 Au large de Bad Ragaz François-Christophe Marzal The Moustache (La Moustache) Emmanuel Carrère Le Pont des arts Eugène Green 2003 Kings and Queen (Rois et reine) Arnaud Desplechin My Children Are Different Denis Dercourt (Mes enfants ne sont pas comme les autres) 2002 A Sight for Sore Eyes (Inquiétudes) Gilles Bourdos Lulu Jean-Henri Roger Un homme, un vrai Jean-Marie Larrieu 2001 Special Delivery (C'est le bouquet !) Jeanne Labrune Shipwrecked On Route D17 Luc Moullet (Les Naufragés de la D17) Monday Morning (Lundi matin) Otar Iosseliani Boyhood Loves (Amour d'enfance) Yves Caumon 2000 Roland's Pass (La Brèche de Roland) Jean-Marie Larrieu The Marcorelle Affair (L'Affaire Marcorelle) Serge Le Péron 1999 False Servant (La Fausse suivante) Benoît Jacquot Farewell, Home Sweet Home Otar Iosseliani (Adieu plancher des vaches !) 1998 Trois ponts sur la rivière Jean-Claude Biette Late August, Early September Olivier Assayas (Fin août début septembre) Alice and Martin (Alice et Martin) André Téchiné 1997 Only God Sees Me (Dieu seul me voit) Bruno Podalydès On a très peu d'amis Sylvain Monod 1996 Genealogies of a Crime Raoul Ruiz (Généalogies d'un crime) My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument Arnaud Desplechin (Comment je me suis disputé… ma vie sexuelle) Tom est tout seul Fabien Onteniente 1995 Le Journal du séducteur Danièle Dubroux 1993 Letter for L… (Lettre pour L…) Romain Goupil 1992 La Sentinelle Arnaud Desplechin La Chasse aux papillons Otar Iosseliani 1984 Les Favoris de la lune Otar Iosseliani 28 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL EMMANUELLE SEIGNER 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Julian Schnabel (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) 2005 Backstage Emmanuelle Bercot The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf (La Môme) Olivier Dahan Four Last Songs Francesca Joseph 2004 And They Lived Happily Ever After Yvan Attal (Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants) 2002 Les Immortels Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos Body to Body (Corps à corps) François Hanss and Arthur-Emmanuel Pierre 2001 Laguna Dennis Berry Streghe Verso Nord Giovanni Veronesi 1999 Buddy Boy Marc Hanlon 1998 The Ninth Gate (La Neuvième porte) Roman Polanski 1997 Place Vendôme Nicole Garcia 1996 Nirvana Gabriele Salvatores RPM Robert Young The Gods Must Be Daring Michel Deville (La Divine poursuite) 1995 Pourvu que ça dure Michel Thibaud 1993 The Smile (Le Sourire) Claude Miller 1991 Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) Roman Polanski 1989 Dark Illness (Il Male Oscuro) Mario Monicelli 1987 Frantic Roman Polanski 1986 Cours privé Pierre Granier-Deferre 1985 Détective Jean-Luc Godard 29 FILMOGRAPHIES MARIE-JOSÉE CROZE 2007 The New Protocol (Le nouveau protocole) Thomas Vincent Deux jours à tuer Jean Becker 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Julian Schnabel (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) 2005 Munich Steven Spielberg Jacquou le croquant Laurent Boutonnat Tell No One (Ne le dis à personnne) Guillaume Canet Moon on the Snow (La Mémoire des autres) Pilar Anguita-McKay 2004 Birds of Heaven (Les Oiseaux du ciel) Eliane de Latour La Petite chartreuse Jean-Pierre Denis 2003 Ordo Laurence Ferreira Barbosa Mensonges et trahisons Laurent Tirard 2002 The Barbarian Invasions Denys Arcand (Les Invasions barbares) Ascension Karim Hussain Nothing Vicenzo Natali Taking Lives DJ. Caruzo 2001 Ararat Atom Egoyan 2000 Maelstrom Denis Villeneuve Wolves in the Snow (Des chiens dans la neige) Michel Welterlin 1999 HLA identique Thomas Briat 1993 La Florida Georges Mihalka ANNE CONSIGNY 2007 Un conte de Noël 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Coupable Anna M 2005 Du jour au lendemain On va s’aimer 2004 Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé 2003 The Light (L'Équipier) 2002 Le Bison Playing 'In the Company of Men' (La Compagnie des hommes) 36, quai des Orfèvres 1985 The Satin Slipper (Le Soulier de satin) Arnaud Desplechin Julian Schnabel Laetitia Masson Michel Spinosa Philippe Le Guay Ivan Calberac Stéphane Brizé Philippe Lioret Isabelle Nanty Arnaud Desplechin Olivier Marchal Manuel De Olivera 30 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 31 FILMOGRAPHIES PATRICK CHESNAIS NIELS ARESTRUP Selective filmography Selective filmography 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Héros Le Prix à payer 2005 J'invente rien On va s'aimer 2004 Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé Tu vas rire mais je te quitte 2003 Mariage mixte 2002 The Landlords (Mille millièmes, fantaisie immobilière) 2001 Le Ventre de Juliette Very Opposite Sexes (Sexes très opposés) Irène 2000 Te quiero Charming Fellow (Charmant garçon) 1999 Kennedy and I (Kennedy et moi) The Children of the Century (Les Enfants du siècle) 1996 Post Coitum (Post coitum, animal triste) 1993 Life's Little Treasures (Aux petits bonheurs) 1992 Drôles d'oiseaux ! The Beautiful Story (La Belle histoire) 1990 Triplex La Pagaille Netchaiev Is Back (Netchaïev est de retour) Promotion canapé Le Sixième doigt Feu sur le candidat There Were Days… and Moons (Il y a des jours… et des lunes) 1989 L'Autrichienne 1988 Thank You Satan Embrasse-moi Les Cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête The Reader (La Lectrice) 1982 Les Sacrifiés 1979 First Voyage (Premier voyage) The Imprint of Giants (L'Empreinte des géants) Cocktail Molotov Out of Whack (Rien ne va plus) 1978 Make Room for Tomorrow (Au bout du bout du banc) Dossier 51 1976 Monsieur Albert Julian Schnabel Bruno Merle Alexandra Leclère Michel Leclerc Ivan Calbérac Stéphane Brizé Philippe Harel Alexandre Arcady Rémy Waterhouse Martin Provost Eric Assous Ivan Calbérac Manuel Poirier Patrick Chesnais Sam Karmann Diane Kurys Brigitte Roüan Michel Deville Peter Kassovitz Claude Lelouch Georges Lautner Pascal Thomas Jacques Deray Didier Kaminka Henri Duparc Agnès Delarive Claude Lelouch Pierre Granier-Deferre André Farwagi Michèle Rosier Didier Kaminka Michel Deville Okacha Touita Nadine Trintignant Robert Enrico Diane Kurys Jean-Michel Ribes Peter Kassovitz Michel Deville Jacques Renard 2006 The Bourne Ultimatum The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) The Candidate (Le Candidat) 2005 Antonin's Stories (Les Fragments d’Antonin) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté) 2004 La Part animale 2002 Speak to Me of Love (Parlez-moi d’amour) 2000 Lulu Kreutz's Picnic (Le Pique nique de Lulu Kreutz) 1991 Meeting Venus (La Tentation de Vénus) 1988 Foreign City (Ville étrangère) 1987 La Rumba 1984 The Future Is Woman (Il Futuro è donna) 1980 Seuls The Woman Cop (La Femme flic) 1979 Memoirs of a French Whore (La Dérobade) 1976 The Big Night (Le Grand soir) 1974 I, You, She, He (Je, tu, il, elle) Stavisky (L’Affaire Stavisky) Paul Greengrass Julian Schnabel Niels Arestrup Gabriel Le Bonin Jacques Audiard Sébastien Jaudeau Sophie Marceau Didier Martiny Ivan Szabo Didier Goldscmitt Roger Hanin Marco Ferreri Francis Reusser Yves Boisset Daniel Duval Francis Reusser Chantal Ackerman Alain Resnais OLATZ LOPEZ GARMENDIA 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) 2000 Before Night Falls Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel MARINA HANDS 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) 2005 Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) Lady Chatterley 2004 Les Ames grises 2002 The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) 2001 At My Finger Tips (Sur le bout des doigts) 1999 Fidelity (La Fidélité) Julian Schnabel Guillaume Canet Pascale Ferran Yves Angelo Denys Arcand Yves Angelo Andrzej Zulawski 32 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 33 FILMOGRAPHIES JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL MAX VON SYDOW Selective filmography Selective filmography 2006 Les Sapins bleus The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Asterix at the Olympic Games (Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques) Counter-investigation (Contre-enquête) Bad Faith (Mauvaise foi) 2005 Gone for a Dance (J’aurais voulu être un danseur) 2004 Call Me Agostino Virgil 2003 Narco Michel Vaillant 2000 Crimson Rivers (Les Rivières pourpres) Sade 1998 The Ice Rink (La Patinoire) 1994 A Judgment in Stone (La Cérémonie) Prêt-à-Porter 1993 Blue Helmet (Casque bleu) 1991 Vincent & Theo 1987 Chouans ! 1983 Vive la sociale ! 1982 The Trout (La Truite) 1978 Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe ? 1975 The Twist (Folies bourgeoises) 1974 Love at the Top (Le Mouton enragé) Murder on the Orient Express 1973 The Three Musketeers 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1970 The Bear and the Doll (L'Ours et la poupée) 1969 The Shadow Army (L'Armée des ombres) 1967 The Killing Game (Jeu de massacre) 1965 Is Paris Burning ? (Paris brûle-t-il ?) The Lace Wars (Les Fêtes galantes) Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 1964 Cyrano et d'Artagnan 1962 Arsene Lupin vs. Arsene Lupin (Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin) 1961 Five Day Lover (L'Amant de cinq jours) The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé) 1960 The Joker (Le Farceur) The Lovers (Les Jeux de l'amour) 1957 On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels (A pied, à cheval et en voiture) Romuald Beugnon Julian Schnabel Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann Franck Mancuso Roschdy Zem Alain Berliner Christine Laurent Mabrouk el Mechri Gilles Lellouche Louis-Pascal Couvelaire Mathieu Kassovitz Benoît Jacquot Jean-Philippe Toussaint Claude Chabrol Robert Altman Gérard Jugnot Robert Altman Philippe de Broca Gérard Mordillat Joseph Losey Ted Kotcheff Claude Chabrol Michel Deville Sidney Lumet Richard Lester Luis Buñuel Michel Deville Jean-Pierre Melville Alain Jessua René Clément René Clair Ken Annakin Abel Gance Edouard Molinaro Philippe de Broca Jean Renoir Philippe de Broca Philippe de Broca Maurice Delbez 2006 Rush Hour 3 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Emotional Arithmetic 2005 Heidi 2003 Intact (Intacto) 2002 Minority Report 2001 Hidden Children (La fuga degli Innocenti) Druids (Vercingétorix : la légende du druide roi) 2000 Snow Falling on Cedars 1998 What Dreams May Come 1996 Jerusalem 1995 Judge Dredd 1994 Time is Money 1991 Until the End of the World 1987 Pelle the Conqueror 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters 1983 Circle of Passions (Le Cercle des passions) 1980 Flash Gordon Deathwatch (La Mort en direct) 1976 The Desert of the Tartars (Il Deserto dei Tartari) Voyage of the Damned 1975 Three Days of the Condor 1974 Steppenwolf 1973 The Exorcist 1969 The Passion of Anna (En Passion) 1968 Shame (Skammen) 1966 Hawaii 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told 1959 The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) 1956 The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) Brett Ratner Julian Schnabel Paolo Barzman Paul Marcus Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Steven Spielberg Dario Argento Jacques Dorfmann Scott Hicks Vincent Ward Bille August Danny Cannon Paolo Barzman Wim Wenders Bille August Woody Allen Claude d'Anna Mike Hodges Bertrand Tavernier Valerio Zurlini Stuart Rosenberg Sydney Pollack Fred Haines William Friedkin Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman George Roy Hill George Stevens Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman 34 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 35 FILMOGRAPHIES ISAACH DE BANKOLE EMMA DE CAUNES 2006 L'Age des ténèbres The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) M. Bean’s Holiday 2005 The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) Short Order 2003 My Mother (Ma mère) 2001 Asterix & Obelix : Mission Cleopatra (Asterix et Obelix : mission Cléopâtre) Lovers of the Nile (Les Amants du Nil) 2000 Pretend I'm Not Here (Faites comme si je n'étais pas là) Princesses (Princesses) Unleaded (Sans plomb) 1999 Mondialito 1998 Milestones (Mille bornes) Restons groupés 1997 La Voie est libre Brother (Un frère) Denys Arcand Julian Schnabel Steve Bendelack Michel Gondry Anthony Byrne Christophe Honoré Alain Chabat Eric Heumann Olivier Jahan Sylvie Verheyde Muriel Teodori Nicolas Wadimoff Alain Beigel Jean-Paul Salomé Stéphane Clavier Sylvie Verheyde AGATHE DE LA FONTAINE 2006 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) 2000 I Love Andrea (Io Amo Andrea) 1998 Train of Life (Train de vie) Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Love in Paris) 1994 Killer Kid Julian Schnabel Francesco Nutti Radu Mihaileanu Anne Goursaud Gilles de Maistre 2006 Toussaint The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Casino Royale 2005 Miami Vice Stay Manderlay Before it Had a Name Black Widow 2004 Homework 2002 Coffee and Cigarettes 2001 3 A.M. 2000 Bàttu Traveling Miles : Cassandra Wilson 1999 Ghost Dog : The Way of the Samurai A Soldiers’s Daughter Never Cries 1998 Otomo 1995 The Keeper 1994 Down to Earth (Casa de Lava) 1990 Night On Earth No Fear, No Die (S'en fout la mort) 1989 Vanille fraise Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer 1988 Ada in the Jungle (Ada dans la jungle) 1987 Chocolat Les Keufs 1986 Taxi Boy Black Mic Mac (Black mic-mac) Noir et Blanc 1984 The Bill (L'Addition) Asphalt Warriors (L'Arbalète) Danny Glover Julian Schnabel Martin Campbell Michael Mann Marc Forster Lars von Trier Giada Colagrande Giada Colagrande Kevin Asher Green Jim Jarmusch Lee Davis Cheick Oumar Sissoko Isaach de Bankolé Jim Jarmusch James Ivory Frieder Schlaich Joe Brewster Pedro Costa Jim Jarmusch Claire Denis Gérard Oury Jacques W. Benoît Gérard Zingg Claire Denis Josiane Balasko Alain Page Thomas Gilou Claire Devers Denis Amar Sergio Gobbi 40 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL 41 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY JULIAN SCHNABEL Julian Schnabel was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1951. At 15, he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston, receiving a BFA, and returned to New York in 1973 to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 1978 Schnabel made the first plate painting, “The Patients and the Doctors.” His first solo painting exhibition took place in 1979 at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York City. Since then M. Schnabel’s work has been exhibited all over the world. His paintings, sculptures and works on paper have been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; The Whitechapel Gallery, London ; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ; The Tate Gallery, London ; and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In 1996 he wrote and directed the feature film Basquiat about fellow New York artist Jean Michel Basquiat. M. Schnabel’s second film, Before Night Falls won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2000 and earned Javier Bardem an Academy Award nomination for best actor. In 2004 a retrospective of Schnabel’s paintings took place at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt ; Palacio Velazquez, Madrid ; and Mostra d’Oltremare, Napoli. This summer exhibitions of Schnabel’s paintings and sculpture are taking place at the Palazzo Venezia, Rome ; Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany ; Rotonda della Besana, Milan ; Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain. Schnabel lives with his wife Olatz and their family in New York City and Montauk, New York, and San Sebastian, Spain. 42 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL THE PRODUCERS KATHLEEN KENNEDY Kathleen Kennedy’s record of achievement has made her one of the most successful executives in the film industry today. Among her credits are three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history: E.T., Jurassic Park and The Sixth Sense. Kennedy currently heads The Kennedy/Marshall Company, which she founded in 1992 with director/producer Frank Marshall. Under their banner, she has produced such films as Congo, The Indian in the Cupboard, Snow Falling on Cedars, A Map of the World, The Sixth Sense, and Seabiscuit. Kennedy began a successful association with Steven Spielberg in the 1970s resulting in the Indiana Jones trilogy, the Back to the Future trilogy, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun, to name just a few. Kennedy served as a producer on the critically acclaimed Spielberg-directed Holocaust drama Schindler’s List, The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Clint Eastwood, the Jan DeBont-directed action thriller Twister, Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, War of the Worlds, and the critically acclaimed Spielberg film, Munich. The Kennedy/Marshall Company is currently in production on Paul Greengrass’ The Bourne Ultimatum, The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the popular series of children’s books, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Crossing Over, directed by Wayne Kramer, and the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series. Kennedy’s recently completed projects include The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the English-language version of the French animated film Persepolis, which is based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel about a young girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution. Kathleen Kennedy is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Producers Branch Executive Committee and the Academy’s Board of Governors. She recently completed her tenure as President of the Producers Guild of America, which bestowed upon her its highest honor, the Charles FitzSimons Service Award, in 2006. JON KILIK Jon Kilik most recently produced Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal and koji Yakusho. Babel won the Golden Globe award for Best Picture – Drama and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Kilik is one of this country’s top independent producers, having collaborated with a wide range of auteur filmmakers. He has served as a producer on 12 of Spike Lee’s films in a collaboration that dates back to Do the Right Thing. Among their subsequent films together have been Inside man, Malcolm X, Clockers, He Got Game and 25 th Hour. Kilik has produced two films directed by Tim Robbins : The Academy Award – winning Dead Man Walking and the ambitious journey into the New York City theatre world of the 1930s, Cradle Will Rock, Kilik has also produced both films directed by Julian Schnabel before The Diving Bell and The Butterfly : Basquiat, starring Jeffrey Wright as artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Before Night Falls, for which Javier Bardem earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Kilik’s other films as producer include Robert De Niro’s A Bronx Tale ; Gary Ross’award-winning Pleasantville ; Ed Harris’Academy Award winner Pollock ; Chris Eyre’s Skins ; Oliver Stone’s Alexander ; and Jim Jarmusch’s Cannes Grand Prix winner, Broken Flowers. 43 45 44 THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY a film by JULIAN SCHNABEL CAST Mathieu Almaric Emmanuelle Seigner Marie-Josée Croze Anne Consigny Patrick Chesnais Niels Arestrup Olatz Lopez Garmendia Jean-Pierre Cassel Marina Hands Max Von Sydow Isaach de Bankolé Emma de Caunes Jean-Philippe Ecoffey Gérard Watkins Nicolas Le Riche François Delaive Anne Alvaro Françoise Lebrun Zinedine Soualem Agathe de la Fontaine Franck Victor Laure de Clermont Théo Sampaio Fiorella Campanella Original music Executive Producers Production Manager Julian Schnabel Ronald Harwood Jean-Dominique Bauby Éditions Robert Laffont (1997) Kathleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik Léonard Glowinski Janusz Kaminski Juliette Welfing Michel Eric - Laurent Ott Julian Schnabel Olivier Beriot Jean-Paul Mugel Francis Wargnier Dominique Gaborieau Paul Cantelon Pierre Grunstein – Jim Lemley François-Xavier Decraene In co-production with With the support of With the participation of In association with In association with FRANCE 3 CINEMA – CRRAV Nord-Pas de Calais La Région Nord-Pas de Calais CANAL+ and CINECINEMA BANQUE POPULAIRE IMAGES 7 The Kennedy/Marshall Company and Jon Kilik Director Screenplay Based on the book by Dossier de presse : Patrick Tanguy Nuit de Chine. Photos : Étienne George. Jean-Dominique Bauby Céline Desmoulin Henriette Durand Claude Doctor Lepage Roussin Marie Lopez Father Lucien Joséphine Papinou Laurent Empress Eugenia Doctor Mercier Doctor Cocheton Ninjinski Nurse Betty Mrs. Bauby Joubert Ines Paul Diane Théophile Céleste CREW Produced by Associate Producer Director of Photography Editor Set Design Titles & credit sequence designed by Costumes Sound