The Secret Life of Words

On an oil rig lost in the midst of the sea where only men work, a fatal accident occurs: one of the men is badly hurt and is affected by blindness.A solitary and mysterious woman, intent on forgetting her past, is sent to look after him.A strange kind of intimacy begins to develop between the man and the woman, a bond made of secrets, truths, lies, humor and pain, from which neither will come out unscathed, a bond that will change their lives forever. The Secret Life of Words is a film about the weight of the past, about silence, about a Spanish cook and a goose and about the power of love even under the most awful circumstances.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Isabel Coixet
Cinematography: Jean Claude Larrieu
Editing: Irene Blecua
Sound: Fabiola Ordoyo
Music: Aitor Berenguer
Actors: Sarah Polley (Hanna), Tim Robbins (Josef), Javier Camara (Simon), Sverre Anker Ousdal (Dimitri), Steven Mackintosh (Dr. Sulitzer), Eddie Marsan (Victor)
Production: El Deseo
Producers: Agustin Almodovar, Jaume Roures
Co-production: Mediapro (Spain)
Costumes: Tatiana Hernandez
Format: 35mm, Color
Production Country: Spain
Production Year: 2005
Duration: 112

Isabel Coixet

A graduate in Contemporary History, she firmly established her international fame with her film My Life Without Me. She had previously written and directed other feature films: Those Who Love, Things I Never Told You and Demasiado viejo para morir joven.As creative director of the JWT agency, founder and creative director of the Target agency and of the production company Eddie Saeta, she won highly prestigious awards for her work in commercials. In the year 2000 she founded her production company Miss Wasabi Films producing outstanding video clips and documentaries.

Filmography

Selected
1989 Demasiado viejo para morir joven
1995 Cosas que nunca te dije/Things I Never Told You
1998 A los que aman/Those Who Love
2003 Mi vida sin me/My Life Without Me
2006 Bastille (segment from the film Paris, je t’aime)
2007 Cartas a Nora/(segment from the film Invisibles, ντοκ./doc.)