Dir: Julian Schnabel France 2007 114 mins 12A

After a stroke, the editor-in-chief of French Elle went from playboy to paralysed. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is his moving story. Based on the memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the film reveals him waking in hospital to discover his fate and realising that he can only move one eye. Hostile and humorous in equal measure, he eventually agrees to communicate by blinking, and dictates an entire book this way. The result is a deeply affecting film.