Stars: Helena Bonham-Carter, Frank Gallacher, Lindley Joyner, Brooke Harmen

Director: Michael Petroni

Summary: The story of Sam Franks who spends his summers with his best friend Silvy. One night as the two friends swim in the river Silvy disappears underwater and never resurfaces, her body is never found... Years later Sam returns to the area and there he meets Ruby...

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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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

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2002
Release Date:	March 8, 2004
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P R D 8412
Keywords:	Voices, General, Human, Wake, Drama, Us, Til
Genre:	Drama