Secret Life of Words, The

Directed by : Isabel Coixet

THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS, 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. Hanna (Sarah Polley), a mysterious young nurse, accepts a job caring for Josef (Tim Robbins), a burn victim, on an oil rig in the Irish Sea. As Hanna tends to Josef`s wounds, it soon becomes clear he`s desperate to divulge secrets–as if words and transparency will free him from his sightless, immobile state. Meanwhile, Hanna remains protectively silent, listening but revealing little. Incrementally, a sense of mutual recognition and empathy unfolds between them, gently evaporating shields of distrust and cynicism.

An Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Venice Film Festival, 2006.

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