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  • Actors: Helena Bonham-Carter, Frank Gallacher, Lindley Joyner, Brooke Harmen
  • Directors: Michael Petroni
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Mar 2004
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000163WUI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,023 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Til Human Voices Wake Us is a ghostly romance from Australia. Guy Pearce plays a brooding psychiatrist who must go back to his family's summer home to bury his father and settle some lingering childhood traumas. Helena Bonham Carter is the mysterious woman he meets on his journey, twice: once in a fleeting encounter on a train, again as she takes a dive off a trestle into a river. By the way, she's amnesiac--Guy Pearce just can't shake that Memento feel. For viewers susceptible to this kind of thing, director Michael Petroni's lofty literary tone might just work (the breathless pauses are broken by quotations from TS Eliot); otherwise, it will look like a skeletal take on a potentially interesting subject. The two fine actors give it a go and they're always good to look at, but finally one wonders what they saw in this very slim proposition. --Robert Horton

Synopsis
In this tender tale of love and loss, Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter play two strangers mysteriously brought together by destiny. Sam (Pearce) is a psychology professor who has travelled back to his Australian hometown for his father's funeral. There he meets Ruby (Carter) who jogs his memory and brings his childhood racing back. The young, innocent, optimistic boy he once was races into focus as he recalls bygone days spent with his best friend, Silvy. With lovely photography of the small town in the Australian bush where Sam was raised, tender moments are played out in quiet splendour by Lindley Joyner and Brooke Harmon as the young Sam and Silvy. Meanwhile, in present time, Sam wants badly to believe that Ruby may just be his long lost childhood love and he invents a story in his head that she may have undergone amnesia and and simply forgotten that she is in fact his Silvy. The magical moments that he recalls, following Silvy through darkened country roads in summertime and delighting in pre-teen puppy love, are mimicked by the bohemian Ruby, who seems to sometimes skip through life and other times run from it. TIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US is a quiet and romantic film that centres on the nostalgia of youth and the difficulty of saying good bye.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Missing Pieces, 12 May 2006
By duirsgrove "duirsgrove" - See all my reviews
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This film appealed to me due to it's story and cast. Guy pearce does a convincing job of being a supportive, sensitive young man who is haunted by his memories and at times denial of his childhood love and trauma. Helena reprises her role as a kooky woman with a penchant for rivers. The film takes the form of contrasts between the current day, a non disclosed time space, perhaps an ode to an idyll itself, being in the Australian countryside and various flashbacks of Pearce and Carter who seem to share common memories or at least experiences. The evolving pattern as well as to determine what happened to the youngsters and how they now find themselves as adults individually is to examine what being alive is compared to simply living: themes of maternal death, Silvy's dissapearance, the birth of livestock and the samaritan aid of being a doctor/helping Ruby from her own fatality (as well as the pairs mental repressions being cleared) highlight this. It's a very beautiful setting, lots of river shots, TS Elliot symbolism, childhood pleasures, caring and genuine love. Silvy and Sam are somewhat missing pieces, her disability is physical -his emotional, perhaps extended by the situation of his own mother and having to be responsible and parental for his own distant father. He gives physically whilst she gives meaning with words. It is at times a little bordering on over sentimental/tv style but overall I think it's more than a soppy chick flick - it's genuine, romantic, truthful, sometimes eerie - floats along peacefully like a river, river of life, and rather sad in parts, except somehow for the ending which was in a way a relief. It's all about missing pieces, connecting and learning to live.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars LIKE A POEM; TO BE SAVORED AS SUCH, 11 Oct 2005
By Shashank Tripathi (Gadabout) - See all my reviews
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Poetry's charming attributes -- lyricism, play on imagery, openness to individual interpretation -- are also its liability; what one may like in a poem, another may find vague or simply ignorable.

By that token, Till Human Voices Wake Us has to be one of the most lyrical films I have seen in recent months. Its theme is simplistic at best: a psychiatrist's childhood memories come flooding back when he returns to his hometown for his father's funeral, exacerbated further by a mysterious amnesic woman who reminds him of...well, any reader of this review can guess.

But what sets it apart is the deliberately languid pacing, the haunting visuals that look like preparatory stock for a big-budget music video, the elaborate trance in which the narrative seems to waft. I like Guy Pearce, love Bonham Carter, and together they sport some sizzling chemistry. Australia lends itself to scenic splendor of the highest order.

But the 18-dollar question: do I recommend it? Depends on your taste. If you've sat through Kurosawa's epics or 80s French films, the kind where nothing much appears to happen on screen yet a lot is kindled in your imagination, then you should find enough to savor in this dreamy romance. If not, it may come off as a pretentious, vacuous, or even ultimately confusing endeavor. Your call, I think it's a firm 3 of 5 stars for its radiance alone.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Gentle but mysterious, 1 Oct 2005
By Francisco "hifranc" (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) - See all my reviews
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Sam is a psychiatrist. He moved to Melbourne years ago. His father dies and his last wish is to be buried in the town that they came from.

Sam goes back and meets a woman on a train. She introduces herself as Ruby. Later on he rescues a woman who jumps off a bridge. The woman can't remember who she is.

Interpersed through out the film are flashbacks to Sam's childhood. We see him spending time with his childhood sweetheart.

It's a heartwarming film. The characterisation is good most of the time. However, I found it hard to believe the pace of things after we get an answer to the woman's identity. The final scene does leave a few questions.

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