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- 2006
- Not Rated
- Good Machine
- 1 h 55 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Good Machine
- 1 h 55 m
Summary Isabel Coixet's intensely perceptive, cathartic love story is about the need for human interdependence and the power of silence and speech to transcend trauma. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Isabel Coixet
Written By: Isabel Coixet
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Good Machine
- 1 h 55 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Good Machine
- 1 h 55 m
The Secret Life of Words
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7.8
Summary Isabel Coixet's intensely perceptive, cathartic love story is about the need for human interdependence and the power of silence and speech to transcend trauma. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Isabel Coixet
Written By: Isabel Coixet
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
82% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Carries an important and timely reminder about the fate of torture victims, so deftly wrapped within a touching and beautifully acted melodrama that the result is the furthest thing from a didactic message movie.
Given the physical limitations of their characters, Polley and Robbins give remarkably compelling performances, and though the resolution of their slowly evolving relationship is a bit too pat, it is one you won't soon forget.
Yes, The Secret Life of Words owes much to Lars von Trier's 1999 "Breaking the Waves." But Coixet's riff stands on its own thanks to thoughtful performances by Polley and Robbins.
The exquisitely coordinated performances elicit an empathy as powerful as anything I can remember feeling in a recent film.
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.
Can a single scene save a movie? An hour and 20 minutes into The Secret Life of Words, Sarah Polley delivers a halting, evocative 10-minute monologue that finally unlocks the mystery behind her guarded character.
In due course skeletons will march out of closets, but the movie yields up its secrets with slow reluctance.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
7.8
75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company
El Deseo,
Hotshot Films,
Mediapro,
Televisión Española (TVE)
Release Date Dec 15, 2006
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Barcelona Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Goya Awards
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
