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Till Human Voices Wake Us

  • 2002
  • R
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
2.5K
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Helena Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce in Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
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A man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.A man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.A man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.

  • Director
    • Michael Petroni
  • Writer
    • Michael Petroni
  • Stars
    • Guy Pearce
    • Helena Bonham Carter
    • Peter Curtin
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    2.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michael Petroni
    • Writer
      • Michael Petroni
    • Stars
      • Guy Pearce
      • Helena Bonham Carter
      • Peter Curtin
    • 49User reviews
    • 23Critic reviews
    • 39Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Guy Pearce
    Guy Pearce
    • Dr. Sam Franks
    Helena Bonham Carter
    Helena Bonham Carter
    • Ruby
    Peter Curtin
    • Dr. David Franks
    Frank Gallacher
    • Maurie Lewis
    Lindley Joyner
    • Young Sam Franks
    Brooke Harman
    Brooke Harman
    • Silvy Lewis
    Margot Knight
    • Dorothy Lewis
    Anthony Martin
    • Russ
    Dawn Klingberg
    Dawn Klingberg
    • Mrs. Sarks
    David Ravenswood
    • Lawyer
    Stewart Faichney
    • Reverend Mortenbury
    Diana Greentree
    • Mrs. Pickford
    Ian Swan
    • Police Sergeant
    Mark Perren Jones
    • Police Constable
    Sally Plant
    • Student #1
    Andrea Swifte
    • Patient #1
    Fred Barker
    • Train Conductor
    Reville Smith
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    • Director
      • Michael Petroni
    • Writer
      • Michael Petroni
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    User reviews49

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    9Heavy_Storm

    Touches us...

    I can't understand exactly why this movie seemed so good to me. It doesn't have a very elaborated plot. But the movie somehow speaks to us.

    The way the director tell such a dense story is marvelous. Movies like this leaves us breathing deeply when it ends. You will fall in love for the characters, and pity them.

    The movie suffers from a certain lack of complexity. In some minutes you can easily understand what's happening (and, if you read the box summary, then you will get it in no time at all). Still, it's pretty, and adorable.

    The musical score is perfect. It draws us into the movie most of the time, and makes our hearth pounds together with the scenes.

    Till Human Voices Wake Us is a poem. Simply as that.
    HariElwingShaym

    A dream taking over a life

    I watched this movie on television while it was running several times one month. The first time I watched it, I got antsy and changed the channel back and forth. I wound up watching it in its entirety several times later on. It is a haunting, intriguing film. Guy Pearce, of course, is extraordinary and so is Helena BC. I see it as a portrayal of a tortured soul who is still in shock from a momentary incident which altered his existence forever. One moment he is an innocent boy and the next he is suppressing a nightmare he cannot come to terms with for half his adult life.

    Once he allows himself to live the entire scenario with all the memories and the what if's, when he allows the ghost to be free, the tortured soul is also released. A beautiful, poetic and memorable film.
    8suzannadavi

    This is a mental/emotional movie - not meant for action-lovers

    I was reading some of the previous reviews and realized that not everyone would get or like this movie - it is not one I would recommend to many friends, but I loved it. Painful, real, acknowledging of life's moments to regret- it made me think of the line from the Big Kahuna when Danny Divito says you have lots to regret, you just don't know it yet (paraphrase) - another great non-action movie. I saw nothing of the paranormal in this movie - I think that is an interpretation by those who do not get it. Beautifully done and tenderly told, I heartily recommend this movie to a small handful of special people which included my 15 year old daughter.
    snafu-4

    A film like no other

    i had no expectations before watching this movie. I've heard very little about it but what i have heard was it was just plain bad. I honestly just watched it because Guy Pearce was in it, but if there is one thing we've learnt from watching Pearce's films is that he takes the complex unoridinary films and this is no exception. Firstly lets start with the plot. From reading other reviews you already know Pearce is a doctor and his leading lady has amnesia, but the film is so much more then that. Pearce's character goes back to where he grew up to barry his father and goes on a journey to recover the past that he never dealt with. It's truley an amazing story about the tragedy one boy experiances in his youth and how it has affected his life thus. Don't take my word for it and don't listen to all of those who have said the movie was bad or made no sense, watch it for yourself and you will see this is another one of Pearce's masterpeices.
    sweetiejay

    Sweet, sad movie that is surprisingly haunting.

    This movie is an under rated film that blends the past and present. It focuses on what is and what might have been, and what life would be like if we had the chance to correct our mistakes. Dr Sam Franks is a man who returns to his home town to bury his somewhat estranged father. On the way he rescues Ruby, an unknown woman who cannot remember who she is or why she is here. He takes her in, and she makes him remember memories he had tried to forget. We are revealed through painful, and sad flashbacks of terrible memories, what it is he had tried to forget. In the end it seems as though she was brought here, just to make him remember, so he could forgive and move on. A sad film, but beautiful at the same time. A line that would sum this film up would be - "She never was."

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    • Trivia
      The title is taken from the last line of the 1917 poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot. It reads: "Till human voices wake us and we drown".
    • Goofs
      As Sam slowly reaches over and closes his dead father's eyes, we can see his father's shirt rising and falling with his breathing
    • Quotes

      Silvy Lewis: If moths are attracted to the light, why don't they come out in the day?

      Young Sam Franks: ...guess in the day, light comes to them.

    • Alternate versions
      -Minor Spoilers* The film was dramatically reworked for the international version (ie. American release) due to pressure by its distributor who felt the stars needed to appear before their original appearance nearly 35 minutes into the film. Under supervision by the director Michael Petroni, the entire film structure has been altered using some unused footage (that doesn't otherwise appear in the original Australian cut) and trimming nearly 5 minutes of footage in order to introduce the adult Sam character (Guy Pearce) at the beginning of the film rather than a half and hour into it. Flashbacks are then implored from the original 35 minutes of the Australian cut for the Young Sam and Silvy scenes. Additionally, Dale Cornelius' original music score has almost entirely been replaced by an orchestral score written by Amotz Plessner. The results ultimately lead to two very different approached to the material with different tones. The original, director intended, version plays more like a romantic drama with a past/present connection whilst the international cut has been reworked to play more as a mystery with possible supernatural undertones.
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    • Release date
      • September 12, 2002 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • Australia
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Пока не разбудят нас голоса живых
    • Filming locations
      • Australia
    • Production companies
      • Instinct Entertainment
      • Key Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $120,601
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,968
      • Feb 23, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $157,720
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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