Le Papillon

I thought of this during the rountine stretching in Wushu class.


Julien is a crusty entomologist who leaves his Paris apartment to track down the Isabelle butterfly. Along the way Julien discovers a stowaway in his back seat: 8-year-old new neighbor Elsa, a latch-key lass who is as fascinated by this curmudgeonly grandfather-figure as he is by the bugs he pursues. He grudgingly takes the kid along "to a sloping meadow 54,000 feet up" in the Alps countryside, the site where Isabelle might be found.


Isabelle butterfly, the butterfly they were seeking, is a rare specimen that enjoys a brief three-days, three-nights fling on this mortal coil, which also reminds me a French book: Le Scaphandre et le papillon(The diving bell and the butterfly). I was glad to learn that someone was interested enough to put it on the big screen. It is expected to be out of streets in 2006. The following is the plot summary from IMDB:

"Johnny Depp portrays Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, save his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind."

The Diving-Bell and The Butterfly was released in Paris on March 6, 1997, where it sold 150,000 copies in the first week of its publication. Bauby died, three days later.

The kangaroo escaped the zoo.
'Goodbye zoo!' cried Kangaroo ...
Cleared the wall with one clean jump,
Leapt across with a great big thump ...