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From: movie reviews Category: Films Date: 08 February 2008 Time: 06:07 PM Review: http://www.thedivingbellandthebutterfly-themovie.com/ In french with subtitles which adds to the problems of spelling out words with one eyelid. Elegiac, and little arty-phony. Moving, if perhaps sentimental, do we not sit in the dark to shed tears. The story is nicely unresolved or not happily. Did Mr Schnabel choose the lead for his resemblance to Mr. S. Somehow a small film, with too many musical sequences and unconvincing and cliched art film imagery. Better than I am making it sound. It really is quite good.