A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.
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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.Written by
Yonatan Doron (jrd@netvision.net.il)
Italian censorship visa # 99708 delivered on 9 March 2006. See more »
Goofs
In order to fly out to the rig, Hanna would have had to do a three-day off-shore survival course. There seems to be no indication that she does this in the film. See more »
Quotes
Victor:
He doesn't like to be with the others. He's a loner, too.
Hanna:
There are many of us.
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What a remarkable film! "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.
Isabel has done it again, an emotional "rollercoaster" that gets to you in a devastating way. We needed this movie!
This movie could have been called "The Forgotten". Why we prejudice people we don't know simply because they behave differently, in ways we do not understand? How come we pretend to understand certain things that we cannot even imagine to be happening in the world?
The story of Hannah is the story of the millions that have been forgotten, but that walk with us every day.
Subtle and brilliant. Fine and devastating.
My admiration to Isabel for her bravery and talent. A terrific next film after "My Life Without Me".
The cast is wonderful! Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins are absolutely fantastic. What a performance! Julie Christie is great too (she sure got the great lines!). Thank you, thank you all.
Entertaining in a meaningful way.
Absolutely recommendable!
All the best to your film Isabel!!
Nico
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What a remarkable film! "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.
Isabel has done it again, an emotional "rollercoaster" that gets to you in a devastating way. We needed this movie!
This movie could have been called "The Forgotten". Why we prejudice people we don't know simply because they behave differently, in ways we do not understand? How come we pretend to understand certain things that we cannot even imagine to be happening in the world?
The story of Hannah is the story of the millions that have been forgotten, but that walk with us every day.
Subtle and brilliant. Fine and devastating.
My admiration to Isabel for her bravery and talent. A terrific next film after "My Life Without Me".
The cast is wonderful! Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins are absolutely fantastic. What a performance! Julie Christie is great too (she sure got the great lines!). Thank you, thank you all.
Entertaining in a meaningful way.
Absolutely recommendable!
All the best to your film Isabel!!
Nico