Film Features Stroke, Wins Two Golden Globe Awards

Acclaimed French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director Award at the 65th Annual Golden Globes Sunday. The film, directed by Julian Schnabel, is based on the autobiography of French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. Bauby suffered a brain-stem stroke that left him with Locked-In Syndrome (completely paralyzed). Despite this major adversity, his creative spirit remained intact.

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Filed under: Stroke on January 29th, 2008