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THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS

by Isabel Coixet

synopsis

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.

international title: The Secret Life of Words
original title: La vida secreta de las palabras
country: Spain
sales agent: El Deseao (ES)
year: 2005
genre: fiction
directed by: Isabel Coixet
film run: 112'
release date: ES 21/10/2005, IT 17/03/2006, IE 23/03/2006, HU 23/03/2006, NL 30/03/2006, DE 06/04/2006, BE 19/04/2006, FR 19/04/2006, PL 25/08/2006
screenplay: Isabel Coixet
cast: Javier Cámara, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Steven Mackintosh, Tim Robbins, Sarah Polley, Julie Christie
cinematography by: Jean-Claude Larrieu
film editing: Irene Blecua
costumes designer: Tatiana Hernández
producer: Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
production: El Deseo, The Mediapro Studio, Hotshot Films (UK)
backing: Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, MEDIA Plus
distributor: BIM Distribuzione (IT), RCV Distribution (NL), Tobis (DE), Diaphana Distribution (FR), Sunrise Distribution (DA), Continental FIlms (SK)

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