Julian Schnabel’s first film since Before Night Falls is a
gorgeous, canny, and sensual adaptation of a most unlikely
story: the memoir of Parisian fashion magazine editor Jean-Dominique
Bauby after he was paralyzed by a sudden stroke. The camera becomes
the one eye Bauby can still control, and it roves—back to
memories of a night under the glow of a light-up Virgin Mary
in Lourdes and over the wind-ruffled curtains in his modest
hospital room. (See movie times at www.thestranger.com for details.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...