Posts Tagged ‘self-pity’

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Amalric, Mathieu | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Croze, Marie-Josée | Consigny, Anne | Chesnais, Patrick | Arestrup, Niels | López Garmendia, Olatz | Cassel, Jean-Pierre | Hands, Marina | von Sydow, Max | De Bankolé, Isaach | Caunes, Emma de | Écoffey, Jean-Philippe | Watkins, Gérard | Le Riche, Nicolas
Directors: Schnabel, Julian
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Barry, Raymond J. | Kava, Caroline | Evans, Josh | Talisman, Jamie | Bobby, Anne | Larkin, Samantha | Berenger, Tom | Whaley, Frank | Levine, Jerry | Panebianco, Richard | Camilletti, Rob | Baldwin, Stephen | McTighe, Michael | Haus, Richard
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.