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The Secret Life Of Words

La vida secreta de las palabras

FEATURE FILM 115'
Drama

COMPLETED

Silence as a Protection for Facing Past Horrors
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Isabel Coixet

Directed by

Isabel Coixet (Nobody Wants the Night, The Secret Life of Words)

Starring

Tim Robbins (A Perfect Day, The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, Cradle Will Rock, the Player)
Sarah Polley (Splice, The Secret Life of Words, Luck)
Javier Camara (Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, I'm So Excited!, Captain Alatriste, Bad Education, Talk to Her -Goya Award: Best Actor, Paris, Je t'aime)

Production

El Deseo

2006 / Original language: English and Danish / Color / available in hd & 2k

An isolated spot in the middle of the sea. An oil rig, where all the workers are men, on which there has been an accident. A solitary, mysterious woman who is trying to forget her past is brought to the rig to look after a man who has been temporarily blinded. A strange intimacy develops between them, a link full of secrets, truths, lies, humour and pain, from which neither of them will emerge unscathed and which will change their lives forever. A film about the weight of the past. About the sudden silence that is produced before a storm. About twenty-five million waves, a Spanish cook and a goose. And, above all else, about the power of love even in the most terrible circumstances.

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4 Goya Awards 2006 :
Best Director and Best Screenplay (Isabel Coixet)
Best Film
Best supporting Actor (Javier Camara)

Venice Film Festival 2005 - Orizzonti Section
Lina Mangiacapre Award

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Available in :

Brazilian

German

Italian