The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    The opening of Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is one of the most viscerally affecting and powerful acts of sustained empathy I can remember encountering in the cinema in quite a while. For what seems like an eternity — but was probably only about a half hour out of this nearly two-hour film — Schnabel's camera steadfastly maintains the first-person perspective of a man who

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