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The secret life of words / Focus Features ; El Deseo ; Mediapro ; in association with TVE ... [and others] ; Agustín and Pédro Almodóvar present an Isabel Coixet film ; producer, Esther Garcí́a ; written and directed by Isabel Coixet.
LIBRA DVD 007 536
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Focus Features spotlight series
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Drama.
- People with disabilities.
- Burns and scalds--Patients--Drama.
- Burns and scalds.
- Oil well drilling rigs--Drama.
- Oil well drilling rigs.
- Helping behavior--Drama.
- Helping behavior.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Burns and scalds--Patients.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Spanish.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Anamorphic widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Also known as: Vida secreta de las palabras
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In English, with optional French or Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround ; dual layer; DVD-9 ; single-sided.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is 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.
- Participant:
- Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Steve Mackintosh, Eddie Marsan, Julie Christie, Daniel Mays, Dean Lennox Kelly, Danny Cunningham, Emmanuel Idowu, Reg Wilson.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jean-Claude Larrieu ; editor, Irene Blecua ; costume designer, Tatiana Hernández ; production designer, Pierre-François Limbosch.
- Notes:
- DVD release of the 2005 motion picture.
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- Venice Film Festival, 2005: Lina Mangiacapre Award (Isabel Coixet).
- Goya Awards, 2006: Best Director (Isabel Coixet) ; Best Film ; Best Production Supervision (Esther García) ; Best Screenplay - Original (Isabel Coixet).
- OCLC:
- 84746254
- Publisher Number:
- 025195002813
- 62100342 Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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