Till Human Voices Wake Us

Name: Till Human Voices Wake Us
Genre: Drama
Released: February 21, 2003
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 39
Cast: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Curtin

2003

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Paramount Classics | Release Date: February 21, 2003 | R

Starring: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Curtin

Summary: A supernatural romance, this film probes the mystifying nature of attraction, memory, identity and a ghostly past that will not go away. (Paramount Classics)

Director: Michael Petroni

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Stephen Hunter

Like the best of poems, it doesn't lend itself to easy understanding. But, like the best of poems, it's extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect. Read full review

Janice Page

Despite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

The movie's hokey mysticism and heaving melancholy is closer in spirit to a solemn Hallmark greeting card. Read full review

David Sterritt

Petroni's directorial debut is too bittersweet and atmospheric for its own good, wrapping a potentially strong story in too many layers of misty emotion. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

I was seduced part of the time, thanks largely to Bonham Carter's sensuality, but the whole is unsatisfying, and it's tempting to see the imposed recutting as a major source of the problem. Read full review

Roger Ebert

There must still be a kind of moony young adolescent girl for which this film would be enormously appealing, if television has not already exterminated the domestic example of that species. Read full review

Dennis Lim

Another mystery that gives up its secrets all too quickly, Till Human Voices Wake Us is named for a T.S. Eliot line -- and it proves a woefully evocative title for this snoozy supernatural pastoral. Read full review

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Nazgulero

Dec 14, 2010

Too heavy, too melodramatic, too unreal. People do not talk or act like that in real life. There is no change of pace, everything is so deep and significant that, together with the soundtrack, in the end, nothing is. I am not a big Guy Pearce fan either, he is almost always completelyToo heavy, too melodramatic, too unreal. People do not talk or act like that in real life. There is no change of pace, everything is so deep and significant that, together with the soundtrack, in the end, nothing is. I am not a big Guy Pearce fan either, he is almost always completely lifeless, bloodless, almost like a robot.… Expand

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