The true story of a man who took an adversity beyond all imagining and transformed
it into a testament to the irrepressible human urge to love, create and dream. With
his third film, director and artist Julian Schnabel (“Basquiat,” “Before Night Falls”)
forges a visual ode to what drives a man to go on when all truly seems lost. Through a
blast of color, beauty and humor, Schnabel tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby
(Mathieu Amalric, “Munich”), AKA “Jean-Do,” the high-flying editor of French Elle and
father of two, who was renowned for his sense of humor and style, his joie de vivre
and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his world was plunged into the depths of
catastrophe. Faced with a harrowing predicament, Jean-Do will use enormous
courage and determination but, most of all, his soaring imagination to escape from
his trap.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an
aging professor of linguistics who survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth
miraculously restored. Dominic's physical rejuvenation is matched by a highly evolved
intellect, which attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, forcing him into exile. While
on the run, he reunites with his lost love, Laura, and works to complete his research
into the origins of human language. When his research threatens Laura’s well being,
Dominic is forced to choose between his life’s work and the great love of his life.