Yönetmen : Julian Schnabel Oyuncular : Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Max von Sydow, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny Senaryo : Ronald Harwood Yapımcı : Kathleen Kennedy, Léonard Glowinski

Julian Schnabel'e Cannes Festivali'nde En İyi Yönetmen Ödülü'nü getiren “Dalgıç ve Kelebek / Le scaphandre et le papillon”, Elle dergisi editörü Jean-Dominique Bauby'nin gerçek yaşam hikâyesinden yola çıkarak yazdığı ve Türkçe'ye de çevrilen "Kelebek ve Dalgıç Giysisi" adlı kitaptan uyarlandı. Geçirdiği beyin kanaması nedeniyle 43 yaşında sol gözünün görme yetisi hariç bütün bedensel fonksiyonlarını yitiren Jean-Dominique Bauby hayatı zihninde yaşamaya başlar ve dış dünyayla bağını sol gözü aracılığıyla kurar. Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are in tact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Céline Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children; Inès, his current lover; and his aged father who he calls Papinou. Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette. Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate.