This director plies a sweetly humanistic art in potentially ghoulish circumstances. He achieves a minimalism that's equally touching and rib-tickling.
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11/09/07
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:55
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Wristcutters: A Love Story sounds like a normal enough indie flick. Boy meets girl. Boy gets separated from girl. Boy goes on a road trip with friends to find girl and gains a new perspective on life. Except everybody's dead.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $231,512
Synopsis: If a film begins with a suicide, chances are, it won't be the feel-good movie of the year. But WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY is surprisingly sweet and funny even as it proudly features a dark streak... [More]
Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits
Director: Goran Dukic
Reviews for Wristcutters: A Love Story
There are problems here, but they're of the good-natured variety -- the flaws of a smart film that aims high.
11/09/07
It's a shapeless, flavorless Sundance blob that rolls around for 85 of the longer minutes you'll find in a theater this year.
11/08/07
Wristcutters is a small film of ambitions nicely scaled to the performances and story. Who knew that affectless characters could be so oddly affecting?
11/08/07
It’s such an original piece of work and I love the deliberately bleak cinematography.
11/06/07
Top CriticA postmortem suicide heaven filled with slit personalities, not quite born again dime store messiahs, and a grimy downscale pizza dive.
11/03/07
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11/03/07
Top CriticWristcutters opens with what proves to be its best scene, one that could stand alone as a brilliant short subject.
11/02/07
The vision of life after death varies between the religious and the non-religious, the optimists and the pessimists and the believers and non-believers. There are few after-life stories, though, as unique and humorous as this.
11/02/07
All this sounds rather grim, and indeed it is -- but this backward Heaven Can Wait is also, thanks to [director] Dukic's inventive imagination, surprisingly involving and ultimately sweet.
11/02/07
Wristcutters is a cut above most low-budget American indies, with something original to say about the human condition and an artful way of saying it.
11/02/07
Wristcutters: A Love Story is a twee little movie that may have appeal for a cult audience but few others. And I bet that cult will wind up growing from its affection for the film before long.
11/02/07
Goran Dukic’s film starts off seeming hip and funky and dark, but almost immediately runs out of steam. It feels like a short carelessly padded to feature length.
11/02/07
The future of Wristcutters as a cult favorite is less assured. Rather than benefiting from repeated viewings, the movie's charm is pretty much spent after the first half hour.
11/02/07
We witness the birth of a new genre, the Post-Slasher Movie.
11/02/07
Top CriticThe strain is obvious in the story's last third, as the filmmaker struggles toward a resolution that fits the logic of the hero's netherworld.
11/02/07
Croatian filmmaker Goran Dukic's debut feature turns out to be a sweetly grim lark: a road film through Limbo.
11/02/07
...more whimsical and charming than you would ever expect from a picture about suicide.
11/02/07
Though it goes a bit wonky toward the end and seems to travel a very long way to drive home a rather simple point, Wristcutters: A Love Story remains a wonderfully evocative experience.
11/02/07
Director Goran Dukic keeps things simple and funny. The same tone pervades throughout.
11/01/07
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