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The Suicide Shop

2012 · 79 min

A whimsically grim musical that finds joy in the macabre, balancing bleak subject matter with a warm, offbeat charm.

Directed by
Patrice Leconte
Genres
Comedy, Animation, Music
Starring
Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet Klein
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In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

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Directed by
Patrice Leconte
Genres
Comedy, Animation, Music
Starring
Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet Klein
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • family
  • grief
  • survival
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
  • musical
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour7
Realism3
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness8
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, animation, music
Directed by
Patrice Leconte
Written by
Patrice Leconte
Starring
Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet Klein, Isabelle Giami, Laurent Gendron, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Eric Métayer, Jacques Mathou
Music
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Runtime
79 min
Country
Belgium, France, Canada
Languages
French

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