1/2: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
...Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a notorious playboy and ambitious writer, whose true account of this experience is the basis for Schnabel's film. Amalric, once he's visible in the second part of the film, gives a remarkable performance, conveying all through a single expressive eye, held wide open in stark contrast to the flaccid rest of his face....
