The Secret Life of Words

(2005)

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This summer, two cookbooks have had fascinating journeys up the charts. At age 36, British model Sally Bee suffered three heart attacks in one week, the result of a previously undiscovered heart defect (spontaneous coronary artery dissection). ... Full Article

Finalists for the 2009 Humanitas Prize, which honors writers whose work "affirms the dignity of the human person and reveals our common humanity" include the scribes behind "Slumdog Millionaire," "Milk," "The Secret Life of Bees," "Doubt" and "Wall-E." ... Full Article

Though it ultimately lives up to its title, it's the silences that speak most forcefully for the better part of The Secret Life of Words , Spanish writer/director Isabel Coixet's grittily poetic second consecutive collaboration with Canadian actress Sarah Polley... ... Full Article

IN CASE you had any doubts -- and maybe you didn't -- it's now official: The Festival de Cannes is a very big event. According to a story in Nice-Matin, the paper of record in the South of France, the ... Full Article

In the grayest corner of England, a reclusive foreigner (Sarah Polley) silently clocks in and out of a factory.She lives alone.She is hearing-impaired. ... Full Article

The kind of movie in which conversations are often prefaced with "Do you really want to hear this?," The Secret Life of Words is heavy with hushed revelations and ponderous monologues, but not much for anything that resembles real human... ... Full Article

Writer-director Isabel Coixet's (My Life Without Me) beautifully wrought chamber drama The Secret Life of Words opens on Hanna (Sarah Polley), a laconic, backward and introverted girl in her early '30s, quietly drowning in her own isolation. ... Full Article

Hanna (Sarah Polley), a solitary and mysterious young woman, works in a factory somewhere in Europe. She speaks to no one, eats the same thing for every meal and wears a hearing aid that she turns off to protect herself... ... Full Article

When you finish making a film, it's always extremely difficult to talk about it. After sleeping, eating, living, dreaming and breathing it twenty-four hours a day, I feel that the words to describe what you've just done are never going... ... Full Article

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Note to all the people who didn't care enough to keep "The Wedding Singer" alive beyond the end of the year. In Broadway's unending quest for product that sells itself on the back of bigger markets, it has come up ... Full Article

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