"The Secret Life of Words" grows on you little by little, at a steady and constant relaxed pace, throwing at you intriguing images and sounds from the very beginning that will get you hooked wondering until the very end.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS
In Ireland, the introspective deaf worker Hanna is forced to take vacations by her boss after four years service in a factory. She travels, but when she overhears a phone conversation in a restaurant, she offers to nurse a burned worker with fractures and temporarily blind in a decommissioned oil rig. Joseph seriously wounded after risking his life to rescue a colleague that committed suicide jumping in a fire and need to stay for a while in the platform to stabilize his health condition. Hanna is a lonely woman, with the paranoid behavior of eating white rice, chicken nuggets and apple everyday and never repeating the soap, and she slowly interacts with the few workers first, opening her heart to Joseph later and disclosing her traumatic experience in her old country.
Awards won:
• 2 ADIRCAE Awards • Silver Ariel Award • 3 Barcelona Film Awards • Butaca Award • 4 CEC Awards • Fotogramas de Plata Award • 4 Goya Awards • Mayahuel Award • Audience Award (Sant Jordi Awards) • Sant Jordi Award • Audience Award (Turia Awards) • Turia Award • Lina Mangiacapre Award
Nominated for:
• Silver Condor Award • 5 Barcelona Film Awards • Chlotrudis Award • 4 CEC Awards • European Film Award • Goya Award • Award of the Spanish Actors Union
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Starring
Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara, Danny Cunningham, Dean Lennox Kelly, Daniel Mays, Emmanuel Idowu, Eddie Marsan, Steven Mackintosh, Julie Christie, Reg Wilson, Leonor Watling, Daphne Brown, Muriel Hobson