La vida secreta de las palabras

The secret life of words
Director
Isabel Coixet
Country
Spain
Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Isabel Coixet
Cast
Javier Cámara / Sverre Anker Ousdal / Steven Mackintosh / Tim Robbins / Sarah Polley / Julie Christie
Production
El Deseo / Mediapro
http://www.mediapro.es/cat/pellicula_fitxa.php?id=20#1
http://www.eldeseo.es

Storyline

An isolated spot in the middle of the sea. An oil rig, where all the workers are men, on which there has been an accident. A solitary, mysterious woman who is trying to forget her past is brought to the rig to look after a man who has been temporarily blinded. A strange intimacy develops between them, a link full of secrets, truths, lies, humour and pain, from which neither of them will emerge unscathed and which will change their lives forever. A film about the weight of the past. About the sudden silence that is produced before a storm. About twenty-five million waves, a Spanish cook and a goose. And, above all else, about the power of love even in the most terrible circumstances.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2006
Made in Sapin
Sundance Film Festival 2005
Premiere Section
Venice Film Festival 2005
Orizzonti Section
Lina Mangiacapre Award
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2005
Transilvania International Film Festival 2006

European Film Awards (EFA) 2006
Selection
Goyas Awards 2006
Best Film Award / Best Director Award (Isabel Coixet) / Best Production Supervision Award (Esther Garcia) / Best Original Screenplay Award
Sant Jordi Award 2006
Fotogramas de Plata: Millor Pel•lícula Espanyola

Releases

Spain (21 of October 2005)