Rupture: Living With a Broken Brain (AVON video)
In 2007 former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo suffered a brain hemorrhage. The experience inspired her to make a film on survivors of brain injuries, giving a sense of hope to those who are isolated from the disease. As she guides us through her personal journey of recovery, she talks to others who have suffered brain injury along the way: literary editor of the London Observer Robert McCrum, jazz guitarist Pat Martino, music producer Quincy Jones and many more. Alongside the testimony of eminent neurosurgeons, neurologists and neuro-psychologists, their first-hand stories celebrate man's life force and will to survive.Read less
Directed by Hugh Hudson, Narrated by Nigel Havers, Produced by Maryam d'Abo, Hudson Film (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2013), 1 hour 9 minutes