Why Spanish title?


It had English title on IMDb couple of months ago, but it's been changed. Why? As I see English is the only language spoken in the film. My Life Without Me also has English title.

Thanks for the answers.

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It's to get the “intellectual” arthouse crowd to go and see the movie. It makes them feel superior. And keeps them off the streets.

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It's to get the “intellectual” arthouse crowd to go and see the movie. It makes them feel superior. And keeps them off the streets.

Good point.

Another reason is: because it's spanish. Same thing with The Machinist
Since a lot of Americans do in fact understand spanish, they kept the title.
If it would have been a polish filmmaker, that shot the film in poland but in english after all, it would definitely have an english title in the US.

It's a way to appeal to the hispanic Americans... and if you look at the review at the front page it did work... in a way

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It's a film produced in Spain by a Spanish director. It came out in Spain last fall. I'm not sure why IMDb had the title in English in the first place.

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Well now I'm confused because the review on the front page for this movie claims it was shot in Ireland.

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When it was shown in Sundance, they also had the title in English...

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Por mucho tiempo en los cines de habla hispana han llegado peliculas con titulo en ingles. ¿Por que no esta vez los de habla inglesa vieran una pelcula con titulo en español?

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es la verdad

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Estoy de acuerdo.

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I think the official title of a film (the one IMDB would use) is in the language that the production company would use. In this case, it is El Deseo, which is hispanic.

The title may be back to English once it hits U.S. advertisments, but that's the distributor's choice.

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no en espana, siempre les cambiaron el titulo.

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In fact, most of the film was shot in Madrid. And the director, the writer and the producer are spanish

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i went to see it a couple of weeks ago, it was the uk and irish premier at the belfast film festival and the title was in english, marketed as the the secret life of words

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Does this film have parts in Spanish ?

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in France the title is in English but the director and the production compagny is spanish.

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...But it says that the language of the film is English?
So the english title could have some justification in being the main one... I think.

So can anyone at least tell me what the English title is? I'm getting curious to see this one :)

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It would be 'the secret life of words'

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It's a spanish movie, written and directed by a spanish director, produced by the Almodovar's Production Company. The action is set in Ireland, and it was shoot in a real Oil Plattform.

There's a quite bunch of spanish movies shot in english: The machinist, My life without me, Fragile, The Woods (with Gary Oldman), The second name, or co produced in spain with spanish directors: The Others, Darkness, Perdita Durango, The Kovac Laberynth (with Timotty Hutton). That's for the wide exhibition.

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In Portugal we have the two titles, in spanish : La Vida Secreta de Las Palavras; and in portuguese: A Vida secreta das Palavras.

But don't think that all movies are to be consumed on USA. The Europe have a market of cinema too.

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Not in the USA. Only though an International Market.

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It's English here as well, finally.

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why don´t you vote in The secret life of words?

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Look on the main page and see under additional details the country listed. The movie is from Spain just like the Machinist was. So it's title would be in Spanish regardless of the language spoken. This is just like Letters from Iwo Jima, its a USA film but spoken in Japanese.

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what a stupid question!! maybe because the movie is Spanish!!

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