The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words (2005) starring Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins. A factory worker named Hanna (Polley), on holiday, takes an opportunity to be a nurse to a burn victim named Josef (Robbins) on an oil rig. Slowly she opens up to him, until at last, in a climactic moment, she is able to tell him the terrible secret out of her past. This is ultimately, and surprisingly, a deeply moving movie about a war that most of us have forgotten about -- but which, nevertheless, had its own Holocaust. There's not much plot here; it's more in the nature of a character study. But it is truly worth seeing. Subtitles are supplied, which is good, because there are no closed captions. Grade: B+