By Jonathan Romney Film 2 Heartbeat Detector Nicolas Klotz 135 MINS, 12A The world of work, with its attendant dementia, has had a special place in French cinema over the past decade or so.

By Petrakis, John The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Directed by a Julian Schnabel. Starring Mathieu Amalric. When he was in his early 40s, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of a French fashion magazine, suffered a massive stroke which left him completely paralyzed except for the movement of one eye.

By Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec. 21--In at least one way, Jean-Dominique Bauby resembles Christy Brown, the Irish poet and artist who transcended cerebral palsy by writing and painting with an appendage as dramatized in My Left Foot.