Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.... (Full plot summary below)
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Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Leave your thoughts about The Secret Life of Words.
| TV GuideKen FoxCarries 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. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannLike Ceylan--like many a fine director--Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe claustrophobic and artificial atmosphere of the setting is unfortunately matched by the equally artificial drama. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanGiven 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. |
| PanoramaJean-François VandeurenUn parcours vers une existence un peu plus normale que Coixet illustre avec tact et simplicité en tirant merveilleusement profit de l'immense talent de ses deux interprètes |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorIn due course skeletons will march out of closets, but the movie yields up its secrets with slow reluctance. |
| Entertainment WeeklyGregory KirschlingCan 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. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerOn one level, the director can be lauded for going for the gut at the expense of everything else. But a bit of homework wouldn't hurt. |
| Sympatico.caAngela Baldassarre"The Secret Life Of Words" manages to mesmerize and engage, if not fully involve. |
| New York ObserverAndrew SarrisThough I continue to have strong reservations about the stylistic abstractions in Ms. Coixet's narrative, the performances given by Ms. Polley, Mr. Robbins and Ms. Christie take me a long way in accepting and recommending the whole package. |
