Le magasin des suicides (The Suicide Shop) (2012)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
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Critic Reviews: 2
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 1
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Patrice Leconte adapts Jean Teulé's darkly comic 2007 novel into a animated musical concerning a young child with a sunny disposition born into a family that thrives on the misery of others. Since 1854, the Tuvache family has owned a small shop catering to the suicidal impulses of its depressed clientele. A walk down the shadowy isles of this morbid boutique reveals a dazzling variety of instruments with which weary shoppers can end their suffering. When pessimistic proprietor Mishima and his
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Bernard Alane
Mishima Tuvache -
Isabelle Spade
Lucrèce Tuvache -
Kacey Mottet Klein
Alan Tuvache -
Isabelle Giami
Marilyn Tuvache -
Laurent Gendron
Vincent Tuvache -
Pierre-François Martin-La...
Pretty Boy -
Eric Metayer
Psychologist, Transient -
Jacque Mathou
Monsieur Calmel, Monsie... -
Urbain Cancelier
Gynecologist, Neurasthe... -
Pascal Parmentier
Gym Teacher, Uncle Dom -
Edouard Prétet
Desperate Man -
Jean-Paul Comart
Rescuer, Suicide on Bri... -
Annick Alane
Little Old Woman, Littl... -
Juliette Poissonnier
Madame Dead for Two, Th... -
Philippe Du Janerand
Febrile Typle, Husband -
Isabelle Petit-Jacques
Bourgeois -
Nathalie Perrot
Little Woman
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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (2)
Too grisly for kids, or at least their ticket-buying parents. At the same time, the bouncy musical numbers with their contorted rhymes are unlikely to be embraced by any self-respecting Goth teen.
Top CriticThe animation is great, in its stark, mostly monochromatic way, but the music merely serviceable.
The ever-diverse Patrice Leconte has made an original, darkly humorous animation about a store assisting suicidals.
After the success of the irreverent The Book of Mormon, this would be a natural for the stage-Broadway would be so lucky.
This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.
An exceedingly off-the-wall animated endeavor...
The Suicide Shop is darkly drawn comedy taken to uncomfortable lengths (and, parents, it's definitely not a film for the whole family).
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Foreign Titles
- The Suicide Shop (Le magasin des suicides) (DE)
- The Suicide Shop (UK)
