Till Human Voices Wake Us
Added 6/20/2009
This was an excellent deeply psychological movie. The stars were well-casted. The acting was terrific. It was a little slow in the beginning, but I think that set the stage for the development of the plot. The flashbacks were inserted in just the right way to stimulate my attention and make me feel the mystery.
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Looked For a Long Time for This
Added 4/20/2009
Thank you Amazon for finding this for me. It's a great film and a great story. I saw it years ago and didn't know the name or who the actors were. Through you and Google I was able to find it and buy it. Another great transaction through Amazon.
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Movie review
Added 1/19/2008
Hauntingly beautiful, a movie achingly alive with love, longing, beauty, and sadness. A movie that features perhaps the most romantic scene I have ever felt, between a young man and a young woman.
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Silence is Louder
Added 9/30/2006
I do so find it amusing to read reviews of this film which claim that "nothing happens" or describe it as being "slow". Definitely this film aims at avoiding linear narrative. I would say it is closer in spirit to the Wong Kar Wai films where mood is as much part of the story as are the silences which are loaded with more internal conflicts and reconsiderations and resolutions than all the dialogue in the world. Brilliant acting by Mr. Pearce and Ms. Bonham Carter.
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a non-starry-eyed review
Added 9/12/2006
This movie is sometimes billed as a love story. It isn't. It's a story of sorrow and loss.
The R rating is a joke. Canada gave it a PG, which is accurate. The one-second nipple shot of Helena hardly merits an R even with up-tight American audiences.
One thing that annoyed me was that the young boy's lips were redder than the young girls (and she was supposed to be wearing lipstick). Also, hers were normal. His looked filled with silicone.
The movie is structured as a mystery, which is a good move for a film in which nothing happens. A mystery keeps it going. However, the screenwriter should have learned the basics of mystery writing (which he probably never did because he was interested in "art" movies). So, Mystery Writing 101: The mystery should deepen throughout with additional clues. There should be many red-herring clues to throw the audience off. None of this was done here. There is one puzzle: Whot hoppened? This puzzle is answered at the end. Many viewers will have guessed it early on anyway (and one helpful amazon reviewer below gives the mystery away).
Bottom line: the movie does not offer the viewer very much. There is Helena, of course, and there are some touching moments (hence, the three stars), but they are few.
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Till Human Voices Wake Us
Added 6/20/2009
This was an excellent deeply psychological movie. The stars were well-casted. The acting was terrific. It was a little slow in the beginning, but I think that set the stage for the development of the plot. The flashbacks were inserted in just the right way to stimulate my attention and make me feel the mystery.
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Looked For a Long Time for This
Added 4/20/2009
Thank you Amazon for finding this for me. It's a great film and a great story. I saw it years ago and didn't know the name or who the actors were. Through you and Google I was able to find it and buy it. Another great transaction through Amazon.
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Movie review
Added 1/19/2008
Hauntingly beautiful, a movie achingly alive with love, longing, beauty, and sadness. A movie that features perhaps the most romantic scene I have ever felt, between a young man and a young woman.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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