THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS
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) |