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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195002813
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 08, 2007
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 15566
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Editorial Review:
Description:
Academy Award winner Tim Robbins stars in this compelling film from Pedro Almodovar, the renowned director of Volver and Talk to Her. Powerfully acted and critically acclaimed, The Secret Life of Words is a moving story about discovering love and hope when least expected. A wounded oil worker forms an unlikely and emotional relationship with a nurse based on his need to divulge the secrets of his past and her mysterious silence about her own identity. Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News calls it 'remarkably compelling…one you won't soon forget.'
Amazon.com:
In the Secret Life of Words, a wounded man and a hearing impaired woman forge an unlikely relationship that transcends romance. They reach an understanding that speaks as much for the affection they hold for one another, as it does their need to simply be recognized. Academy Award winner Tim Robbins (Bull Durham, The Shawshank Redemption) stars opposite Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) in this emotional drama directed and written by Isabel Coixet (who also collaborated with Polley in My Life Without Me). Polley plays Hanna, an emotionally-stilted factory worker who is forced to take a vacation. Instead of jetting off to the Caribbean or the South of France for some sun, Hanna opts for Northern Ireland where she is hired to work as an oil rig nurse, despite the fact that she may never have actually had any medical training. Robbins portrays Josef, a chatty burn victim who is left temporarily blind, but still has enough life in him to flirt with Hanna. She would rather turn down her hearing aid and make as little contact with others as possible. Slowly, the two share secrets and help each other recover--him physically, her emotionally. While the burgeoning love story is a bit implausible, the film does a good job in exploring two characters with complicated backgrounds. --Jae-Ha Kim
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - too stupid for words
sorry...i love most of this director's movies, but when the helicopter airlifted the nurse to the drilling site, while at the same time ignoring airlifting the patient out, this movie lost all cfredibility for me,
I'm sure the acting is excellent, the cinematagraphy et al is all first rate...but the premise took a nose dive with that one....
Rating:  - I wish I could have liked this more
The Secret Life of Words is a well intended film, but like good intentions, it gets derailed by its own earnestness. The film opens with a child's voice: are these words from the main character Hanna, representing the remnant of a childhood past, a fleeting ghost of safety? Or is it the inner voice, the inner words, that only Hanna can hear, since a violent and brutal war in the Balkans left her deaf? Or is this child's voice a vain attempt to make the movie deeper than it really is? I vote for the ... Read More
Rating:  - Compelling Claustrophobic Drama
"Sarah Polley gives a wonderfully searching performance, as a woman in a state of extreme isolation, in "The Secret Life of Words," a compellingly claustrophobic drama set mostly aboard an oil rig. This film tackles its big theme -- silence as a defense against tragedy -- with delicacy, sympathy and originality, sans sentimentality." Jonathan Holland
This film grabbed me and cut to my core. Immediately this young woman played by Sarah Polley spoke to me. This is an actress who can display ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie
I loved this film. It's a very good combination of a personal drama with politics & history. Tim Robbins' performance is great. Sarah Polley is so good as she was in "My lIfe without me". I'm looking forward to seeing new films from Isabel Coixet.
Rating: - 95% Depression; 5% Redemption ....
"The Secret Life of Words" may tax the patience and endurance of many viewers. Two forlorn individuals - Sarah Polley (Hanna) and Tim Robbins (Josef) have more baggage than an O'Hare skycap. Both are scarred, emotionally and physically.
Hanna nurses Josef after the latter is badly hurt and burned in an oil rig accident. She is a battered survivor of atrocities during strife in the Balkans. She works in a factory in Copenhagen but is aloof and distant from her co-workers. As their relationship ... Read More
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