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- “The Secret Life of Words” is much stronger than “My Life Without Me,” in which Ms. Polley played another bruised angel, a wife and mother stricken with cancer and given two months to live who conceals her diagnosis from her family and embarks on a final fling with a man she meets in a Laundromat.
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“The Secret Life of Words” is much stronger than “My Life Without Me,” in which Ms. Polley played another bruised angel, a wife and mother stricken with cancer and given two months to...
Directed by Isabel Coixet. A compelling drama about a traumatized young woman who keeps to herself and finds a way out of silence by sharing her secret with someone who cares. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Hanna (Sarah Polley) is a partially deaf woman who works at a factory and keeps to herself.
Polley starred in Coixet’s 2003 film, My Life Without Me, about a young married mother who keeps a terminal illness to herself and sets about fulfilling a private wish list during her remaining months.
Sep 1, 2005 · Altogether more challenging than helmer Isabel Coixet’s previous movie, “My Life Without Me,” in which Polley also starred, pic tackles its big theme — silence as a defense against tragedy —...
Feb 23, 2007 · Directed by Spain's Isabel Coixet ("My Life Without Me"), "The Secret" (partly based on the events of the Balkans War in the early 1990s) is a tale of enormous pain and sacrifice, and...
"The Secret Life of Words" is the contemplative, poignant story of a young hearing impaired woman (Polley), who takes care of a man (Tim Robbins) who suffered severe burns in an accident on an oil rig.
Dec 16, 2005 · The Secret Life of Words is a slow, mannered drama, but with a revelatory and powerful ending that rewards the patient viewer. Read Critics Reviews
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