The Suicide Shop
A happy child is born into a depressed family that sells equipment to help people commit suicide. Realizing that the very future of their enduring family business may be threatened by the beaming boy, the family soon resorts to desperate measures in their efforts to keep the misery alive.
23 January 1958, Paris, France
23 September 1953, Tournai, Belgium
1998
5 September 1925, Carnac, Morbihan, France
25 June 1968, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
14 September 1947, USSR
August 18, 2012
The Suicide Shop is darkly drawn comedy taken to uncomfortable lengths (and, parents, it's definitely not a film for the whole family).
March 12, 2013
The ever-diverse Patrice Leconte has made an original, darkly humorous animation about a store assisting suicidals.
November 22, 2012
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.
November 29, 2012
The animation is great, in its stark, mostly monochromatic way, but the music merely serviceable.
September 10, 2012
An exceedingly off-the-wall animated endeavor...
March 07, 2013
After the success of the irreverent The Book of Mormon, this would be a natural for the stage-Broadway would be so lucky.
November 30, 2012
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.
