Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del corazón) (1997)
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A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him spark his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama from writer-director Montxo Armendáriz. The hometown of nine-year-old Javi (Andoni Erburu and his brother Juan (Alvaro Nagone) is a rural farming village in the early… More A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him spark his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama from writer-director Montxo Armendáriz. The hometown of nine-year-old Javi (Andoni Erburu and his brother Juan (Alvaro Nagone) is a rural farming village in the early 1960s. Their father, they are told, accidentally killed himself while cleaning his gun, and the room where the death occurred has been declared off limits to the boys. Juan tells his younger brother that ghostly sounds can be heard in the room, but when Javi sneaks in and hears the unearthly moans, it's really the sound of their mother making love with their uncle Tio (Carmelo Gomez). Javi's friend Carlos (Inigo Garces) has also suffered the loss of a parent, his mother, who committed suicide. Javi and Carlos sneak into a haunted house, also rumored to be a site where spectral sounds can be heard, and they overhear something in the basement. His adventures inspire Javi to question the deaths of his father and Carlos' mother, leading to a revelation. Secretos del Corazon (1997) was the winner of four Goya Awards, as well as an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- Montxo Armendáriz
- Written By
- Montxo Armendáriz
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 19, 1997 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
I don't think I've ever seen a movie that so captured the idea of how strange, mysterious, frightening and even incomprehensible the world is to us in early childhood.
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Cast
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Silvia Munt
as Mother
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Vicky Pena
as Aunt Rosa
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Carmelo Gómez
as Uncle
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Andoni Erburu
as Javi (Javier Zabalza)
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Inigo Garces
as Carlos
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Maria Charo Lopez
as Aunt
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Alvaro Nagore
as Juan
