
Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides, a high-desert landscape dotted by old tires, burned-out cars, and abandoned sofas. He gets a job in a pizza joint. By chance, Zia learns that Desiree offed herself a few months after he did, and she's looking for him. He sets off with Eugene (an electrocuted Russian rocker) to find her, and they pick up a hitchhiker, Mikal, who's looking for the People in Charge, bel... (Full plot summary below)
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Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides, a high-desert landscape dotted by old tires, burned-out cars, and abandoned sofas. He gets a job in a pizza joint. By chance, Zia learns that Desiree offed herself a few months after he did, and she's looking for him. He sets off with Eugene (an electrocuted Russian rocker) to find her, and they pick up a hitchhiker, Mikal, who's looking for the People in Charge, believing she's there by mistake. They're soon at the camp of Kneller, where casual miracles proliferate. They hear rumors of a miraculous king. Can Zia find Desiree? Then what? Where there's death there's hope.
Leave your thoughts about Wristcutters: A Love Story.
| Movie City NewsDavid Polandkept trying to shake the film's subtle charm and unvarnished romantic strokes, but I was steadily, gently pulled in over and over and over again. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowWristcutters: A Love Story is a lousy title for a lovely-loony picture about an afterlife for suicides. It's an off-road "road movie" about people who off themselves. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonWriter-director Goran Dukic, adapting an Etgar Keret novel, may be too successful in establishing suicideland as a fate worse than death. It really is an empty, dreadful place. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyTruly independent in mode and spirit, this offebat comedy deserves credit for its original vision of an after-life that's not all that different from this life--only slightly weirder and more darkly humorous. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittIt has 'midnight movie' written all over it. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottHas an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure. |
| The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonFor a film about suicide, Wristcutters is agreeably loopy and game. Dukic is bitterly funny rather than maudlin, and his carefully plotted grunge chic, in addition to being cheap, lends the film a great deal of Jim Jarmusch grime to go with its unmistakable Jim Jarmusch quirk. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerGianni TruzziThis delightful piece of whimsy uses its simple premise effectively to gain and keep our attention and to remind us simply that, while this world appears ordinary, it is still unbounded by reality. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA tribute to ultra-low budget explorations into the unknown and the politically incorrect. This is the stuff that art is made of. |