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A glacially-paced film about a man who's lost touch with his emotions after an extremely traumatic childhood experience, Till Human Voices Wake Us wastes its talented stars Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter on material that they can do little with. Pearce is of course limited in his role as the emotionless doctor (Dr. Sam Franks) who saves Carter from drowning in a river, while Carter is stuck with a sort of tree nymph type of character (Ruby), who traipses through the forest like a careless child and must appear semi-feral to play off of Franks' rigidity. The flashbacks to Franks' childhood which feature Brooke Harman and Lindley Joyner are livelier and the actors have more chemistry. But as the plot in present tense moves slowly to its conclusion, Franks is the last to figure out the big surprise that most of the audience was aware of twenty minutes earlier. Written and directed by successful screenwriter Michael Petroni (who penned The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys), Till Human Voices Wake Us is a less-than-inspired directorial debut. Adam Bregman, All Movie Guide

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