Rotten
The claustrophobic and artificial atmosphere of the setting is unfortunately matched by the equally artificial drama.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
The Secret Life of Words
2005 · 1h 55m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Isabel Coixet
Overview
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Rotten
What pleasure there is to be wrung from the exceptionally banal The Secret Life of Words lies in the harsh, unforgiving beauty (lyrically shot by Jean-Claude Larrieu) and wonderfully strange social life of the isolated rig.
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
There may be no young actress today better at embodying a blend of wounded innocence and stoic pride than Sarah Polley. In The Secret Life of Words, she has a part worthy of her gifts.
Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Though I continue to have strong reservations about the stylistic abstractions in Ms. Coixet's narrative, the performances given by Ms. Polley, Mr. Robbins and Ms. Christie take me a long way in accepting and recommending the whole package.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Like Ceylan -- like many a fine director -- Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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