Goya 40 - The Secret Life of Words

Director: Isabel Coixet

Screenplay by: Pedro Almodóvar, Jean Cocteau
Cinematography by: José Luis Alcaine
Cast: Sarah Polley, Javier Cámara, Julie Christie, Sverre Anker Ousdal

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.

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Awards: Goya Awards 2006 – Best Film, Best Director (Isabel Coixet), Best Screenplay (Isabel Coixet), Best Post-Production