Focus Features’ new deep-sea thriller, Last Breath, is open now in theaters (get tickets here!), and we’re betting it’s making quite the splash. Saturation divers spend weeks on end together, living ...
He feels trapped inside his paralyzed body as if it was one of those old deep-sea diving bells, but his mind still flies as wild and free as a butterfly. Based on the astonishing memoir of the late ...
On February 28, moviegoers everywhere will embark on a death defying undersea rescue mission in Last Breath, from director Alex Parkinson. The story centers on a trio of saturation divers working to ...
It’s hard to think of a worse way to die than trapped, without heat, communication, or oxygen, 300 feet beneath the sea. That’s the fate that real-life diver Chris Lemons nearly faced in 2012. And now ...
There’s a certain kind of true-life logistical rescue drama — Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” is the granddaddy of them — that makes you realize how larded with theatrical devices most movies really are.
"My Left Eyelid" would have been a suitable, if inelegant, alternate title to "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," the triumphant story of a paralyzed Frenchman, Jean-Dominique Bauby. An Elle editor ...
Medical misfortune didn't turn Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) into a saint. Just emerged from a two-week coma—the distraught mother of his children, Celine ...
It's not often that a director learns a new language just to make a film, but Julian Schnabel learned French to direct "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." Perhaps, that endeared him to the Cannes ...