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RECENT CREDITS

Elegy (FILM) Aug. 8, 2008

Paris, Je T'Aime (FILM) May. 4, 2007

The Secret Life of Words (FILM) Dec. 15, 2006

My Life Without Me (FILM) Sep. 26, 2003

Things I Never Told You (FILM) May. 1, 1998

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BIOGRAPHY

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Spanish writer/director Isabel Coixet started making films when she received an 8 mm camera for her first communion. After studying 18th and 19th century history at the University of Barcelona, she made a living in advertising and copy writing. This led to making commercials, and eventually to founding her production company, Miss Wasabi Films. In 1983, her first screenplay, Morbus, was made into a movie by Spanish director Ignasi P. Ferré. In 1988, Coixet made her debut as a writer/director with Demasiado Viejo Para Morir Joven, earning her a Goya nomination for Best New Director. Her first English-language film came about in 1996, with Cosas Que Nunca Te Dije (Things I Never Told You). Starring an American cast led by Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy, the emotional drama earned Coixet her second Goya nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Joining up with a French production company, she returned to a Spanish-language script for her 1998 historical adventure A Los Que Aman (Those Who Love).

Her international breakthrough came in 2003 with the intimate drama My Life Without Me, based on a short story by Nanci Kincaid. Sarah Polley stars in the film as Ann, a young mother who chooses not to tell her family that she has terminal cancer. A Spanish/Canadian co-production with help from Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo production company, My Life Without Me won acclaim at the Berlin International Film Festival.

~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

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Box Office Analysis, Sept. 28: The Rock "Run"s Away With It

Sep. 26, 2003

Box Office Analysis for Sept. 28: The Rundown takes the top spot followed by Under the Tuscan Sun Underworld Secondhand Lions The Fighting Temptations Once Upon a Time in Mexico Duplex Cold Creek Manor Matchstick Men Lost In Translation.

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