SYNOPSIS: Secrets of the Heart is an elegant and poignant tale of the mysterious and magical adult world as seen through the eyes of Javi, a nine year old child, growing up in a small provincial town in the 1960's.

Javi believes he can hear the voices of the dead and that they whisper to him their secrets, which were left unspoken in life.  At his mother's house in the mountains, he is fascinated by the room in which his father dies and which his mother carefully keeps locked.  But Javi also learns that the living have their secrets as well.

As Javi begins to comprehend these Secrets of the Heart, he takes us on a journey where we are offered "the irresistible opportunity to see the world once again through the innocent eyes of a child." (Seattle Film Festival).

EDITORIAL REVIEW:  Academy Award® Nominee and Winner of Best European Film at the Berlin Film Festival (and another 16 awards around the world) this touching tale stars Andoni Erburu as Javi (ha-vee), a 9-year-old boy with a positive but naive outlook on life.  Obsessed with death, and in particular a room in his house where is father was mysteriously killed some years ago, Javi swears that he can hear the ghost of his father and a woman coming from that very room every once and a while, usually at night.  Javi and his brother Juan divide their time between living with their two Aunts and with their Mother and Uncle in the next town over.  Javi's obsession with ghosts and spirits continually leads him to a home where a few murders happened sometime ago, and one day he finds a rather peculiar surprise about the "murderer."

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STARRING: Andoni Erburu, Silvia Munt, Charo López, Carmelo Gómez.
AVAILABILITY: In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH: 108 minutes.
LANGUAGE: Spanish, with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
SPECIAL FEATURES: 1.33:1 (4:3 Full Screen); 2.0 Stereo; 1 disc; Chapter selection; Uncut.
VIEWER DISCRETION: Coarse language, violence.
PICTURE QUALITY: Excellent picture quality.  (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Spain (1997).
ALSO KNOWN AS:  Secretos del corazón (original title) / Bihotz ondoko secretuak (Spain: Basque title) (literal title).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY:  July 27, 2007.
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