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Judging from Schnabel’s version of events, in 1995 French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby awoke after a stroke to find his entire field of vision looked like a Julian Schnabel film. Remarkably, Bauby—whose paralysis spared only his left eye—blinked out an entire memoir, finally succumbing to heart failure two days after its publication. Bauby (played in the film by Amalric) reportedly wanted to have his life made into a movie, but his book is plainspoken, rueful and occasionally darkly funny. Schnabel co-opts the material for the cinematic equivalent of Wagnerian opera: He indulges in a ludicrously romanticized notion of poststroke rehab, replete with a succession of bombshell aides who seem ripped from the pages of Bauby’s magazine. But is there some reason each shot had to be more distractingly gorgeous than the last? Hear from Schnabel on the DVD’s commentary track.
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