Posts Tagged ‘communication’

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Mathieu Amalric | Emmanuelle Seigner | Marie-Josée Croze | Anne Consigny | Patrick Chesnais | Niels Arestrup | Olatz López Garmendia | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Marina Hands | Max von Sydow | Isaach De Bankolé | Emma de Caunes | Jean-Philippe Écoffey | Gérard Watkins | Nicolas Le Riche
Directors: Julian Schnabel
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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.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Mohamed Akhzam | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter | Trevor Martin | Matyelok Gibbs | Georges Bousquet | Claudine Acs | André Oumansky | Michael Maloney | Dermot Crowley | Wendy Nottingham | Henry Maratray | Linda Broughton
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.