The Suicide Shop (2012)

Original title

Le Magasin des suicides

Directed by

Patrice Leconte

Genre

comedy, animation, music

Country

France, Belgium, Canada

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

16

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 632 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a gloomy near-future city, a family runs a shop that sells tools for suicide. Their lives are disrupted when their youngest child, who is inexplicably cheerful, is born.

darkly comicwhimsicalmusicalunsettlingsatiricalmorbidhopeful

What happens

The Suicide Shop (French: Le Magasin des suicides) is a 2012 French adult animated musical comedy film written and directed by Patrice Leconte and is based on Jean Teule's novel of the same name. It was released on 16 May 2012 in France. As with the source material, it centers on an undepressed child born into a proprietorial family that runs a shop that sells suicide adjuncts in a dilapidated, near-future city. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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