Here's a remarkable true story that comes to the screen with an exhilarating disregard for conventional rules. With maverick painter Julian Schnabel at the directing helm, you expect nothing less. The very first scene thrusts us into the head of a man emerging from a coma. His name is Jean-Dominique Bauby. He's the editor of French
Elle. And a stroke has left him paralyzed, trapped in the diving bell of his own body, with only his left eye — which blinks like a butterfly — capable of movement.