Roselyne and the Lions & Locked-in Syndrome July 5, 2009

Come see Jean-Jacques Beineix's Roselyne and the Lions and Locked-in Syndrome one night only at American Cinematheque at The Egyptian Theatre!
***Q&A with Jean-Jacques Beineix following the screening.

Roselyne and the Lions
Roselyne and Thierry dream about training wild animals, but no one wants to engage them to do so. Refusal and disappoints follow one after the other until, one day, they are offered a place in a big German circus. However, Roselyne draws the attention of crowds, while feels that their love relationship is in danger. Only their shared passion for the lions could save them from rupture.

Locked-in Syndrome
Recounts the long journey of Jean-Dominique Bauby, struck down by locked-in-syndrome, in his daily struggle to write one of the finest and most unusual book of the decade The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It transports the reader into the musings of an immobile man, his humor and his faith in life.

Jean-Dominique Bauby was editor-in-chief of the famous women's magazine ELLE, when, on the 8th December 1995, he had a brain stem stroke and was affected by locked-in-syndrome. Totally paralyzed, but with his mind intact, he became a prisoner in his own body.

His only way of maintaining contact with the outside world was by blinking his left eyelid. Using this unprecedented method of communication, Jean-Dominique patiently dictated his book "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly".

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