The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words

  • Director: Isabel Coixet
  • Countries of origin: Spain, Ireland
  • Language: English, Danish
  • Release date: October 21, 2005
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: La vida secreta de las palabras
  • "Vida secreta de las palabras, La" is a feature film written and directed by Isabel Coixet Castillo and starring Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins . The film was screened at Venice International Film Festival in Italy on September 1, 2005   .
    The film tells the story of Hannah, a lone factory worker who voluntarily went to an offshore oil rig to take care of a man Joseph who was temporarily blinded by severe burns in an accident.

    Details

    • Release date October 21, 2005
    • Filming locations Bilbao, Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
    • Production companies El Deseo, Hotshot Films, Mediapro

    Box office

    Budget

    $5,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $20,678

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $5,309

    Gross worldwide

    $6,410,058

    Movie reviews

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    • By Glennie 2022-12-26 19:57:30

      Balkan Wars

      The story mentions that the Armenian genocide in the Balkan War has brought endless nightmares to people.

      The isolated drilling platform makes everyone feel a little lonely. Two lonely souls who have suffered and experienced hardships collide together, intertwined with real and indelible traces, and full of traces of love. Inseparable, the two slowly broke various defense bottom lines and expressed their hearts. The story is interspersed with a love...

    • By Vinnie 2022-12-25 19:33:57

      No one knows you better than me

      "The Secret Life of Words" is a very popular Spanish film. This is a film I have watched every year in recent years. It is not a masterpiece, and it has hardly won any international film festival awards. To be honest, the aesthetic value of movies is not outstanding, but I have a soft spot for it. It is my top 10 movie viewing. Because it is in addition to a series of desperate factors such as blood, dirt, death, hatred, shame, etc., it allows me to understand what...

    • By Johnathan 2022-12-20 07:24:52

      The secret of words and silence

      La vida secreta de las palabras - 2005
      Last time I saw Isabel Coixet's film was "Map of the Voices of Tokyo". I don't know how to say it, but every time her movie is different from what I expected. Except "Days Without Me". For example, when looking at the "Map of the Voice of Tokyo", I was looking forward to an interesting Japanese story, but it turned out to be a mess, and I saw a bunch of Japanese city signs in front of me. While watching "The Secret Life of Words", I expected to be a...

    • By Buddy 2022-12-16 02:16:26

      Gender: Female

      The deserted ocean drilling platform and the boring suburban factory workshop, the switching of the two scenes leads to the hero and heroine of the story.

      The heroine is silent and weird, obsessive-compulsive, and clean.

      The actor was burnt to bed, pretending to be optimistic but feeling guilty.

      The female protagonist cannot hear because of the old creation, and the male protagonist is temporarily blinded by burns.

      In the ambiguous combination of the female nurse and...

    • By Giovani 2022-12-14 03:57:39

      The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough

      This is a great historical film that forgives redemption and anti-war reflection. It’s a big-budget film that doesn’t have a grand but magnificent. No, this is not a movie. This is a real event that has happened now and will happen in the future. , Remember and take a lesson from generation to generation, respect and love every life.

      The film is divided into three...

    User comments

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    • By Gloria 2023-09-07 10:37:50

      In fact, it's still the same. . People who have not experienced the war firsthand. . How can you be qualified to judge those who lived after the war....

    • By Curtis 2023-08-20 13:32:25

      Tired of watching, the network is not good, constantly waiting for pps to buffer... This is a movie that needs to be watched and listened carefully, Sarah Polley is...

    • By Diego 2023-08-19 21:18:30

      2018176 The story itself is interesting, suspenseful, and detailed. If the ending chapter can smash the romance, it may be cooler and more thought-provoking with a little more blank space. Too many disasters in this world have been gradually forgotten, and the perspective of this film is exactly the survival state of the survivors after the catastrophe.

    • By Alyson 2023-08-18 04:30:38

      It's perfect in my...

    • By Rahul 2023-07-20 14:09:44

      Let me tell you a minimalist and pure story. In the story, who is the angel? Who was saved...

    Movie plot

    An accident occurred on an all-only offshore oil rig. A mysterious and lonely female nurse who tried to forget the past, gave up her first vacation in a few years, arrived on the offshore platform, and began to take care of a man who was severely burned and temporarily blind in the accident. There was a strange intimacy between the two. This relationship was composed of secrets, truths, lies, humor, and pain. The true feelings drawn by...
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    Movie quotes

    • Josef: I thought um, you and I, maybe we could go away somewhere. Together. One of these days. Today. Right now. Come with me.

      Hanna: No, I don't think that's going to be possible.

      Josef: Why not?

      Hanna: Um, because I think that if we go away to someplace together, I'm afraid that, ah, one day, maybe not today, maybe, maybe not tomorrow either, but one day suddenly, I may begin to cry and cry so very much that nothing or nobody can stop me and the tears will fill the room and I won't be able to breath and I will pull you down with me and we'll both drown.

      Josef: I'll learn how to swim, Hanna. I swear, I'll learn how to swim.

    • Inge: Before the holocaust, Adolf Hitler called all of his collaborators together and in order to convince them that he could get away with his plan he asked them who remembers the extermination of the Armenians? That's what he said. Thirty years later nobody remembered the million Armenians exterminated in the cruelest possible way.

    • Simon: Hanna?

      Hanna: What?

      Simon: Nothing.

      Simon: Hanna?

      Hanna: What?

      Simon: Nothing.