The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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The Suicide Shop
Comedy · Animation · Music · 2012
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.
Movie details
The Suicide Shop
“Need help?”
2012 Comedy · Animation · Music 1h 19m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.3 / 10
Community rating
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.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The Suicide Shop?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Patrice Leconte
Written by
Patrice Leconte
Bernard Alane
Mishima Tuvache (voice)
Isabelle Spade
Lucrèce Tuvache (voice)
Kacey Mottet Klein
Alan Tuvache (voice)
Isabelle Giami
Marilyn Tuvache (voice)
Laurent Gendron
Vincent Tuvache (voice)
Pierre-François Martin-Laval
Handsome Boy (voice)
Eric Métayer
Psychiatrist / Homeless Man (voice)
Court is in session
Put The Suicide Shop on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.