I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie. I will not watch the film finally. I do not envy, it certainly will not be too real, too fictionalized, just the opposite of those pages that I just finished. This book is, as has been said many readers, a hymn to life. Jean Dominique Baudy does not complain, he recounts his memories mingled with his present and his dreams. You have to imagine the work that represented the writing of these pages and the effort it was for him to dictate the letter by letter ... I was touched to learn that Jean Dominique Baudy died three days after the release of this book, as if his ultimate goal was reached ...