Synopsis
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a psychologist, returns to bury his father. Back in his hometown, he meets a woman called Ruby who reminds him in so many ways of his lost love.
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Cast
- Guy PearceDr. Sam Franks
- Helena Bonham CarterRuby
- Frank GallacherMaurie Lewis
- Lindley JoynerYoung Sam Franks
- Brooke HarmanSilvy Lewis
- Peter CurtinDr. David Franks
- Margot KnightDorothy Lewis
- Anthony MartinRuss
Recommendations
- 80
Washington Post
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. - 60
Dallas Observer
There's a somber tone to Petroni's work here--enhanced by Roger Lanser's shadowy cinematography and handicapped a bit by a schmaltzy Hollywood-type score--and there's also plenty of episodic life stuff. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
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. - 50
Variety
This dank, gloomy essay into the supernatural tries hard to create an intriguing mood in which fate guides the lives of its wounded protagonists, but few will be interested in the outcome. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Stays emotionally mired because of a static screenplay that fails to express its issues dramatically. - 50
Boston Globe
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. - 50
ReelViews
Quickly causes viewers to lose patience, then interest. - 40
The New York Times
So busy building its symbolic frame that it forgets to develop its characters, or even to make them likable.
