It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant.
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits, Will Arnett
Screenwriter: Goran Dukic
Producer: Adam Sherman, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev, Chris Coen
Composer: Bobby Johnston
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 3, 2010
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Goran Dukic, Director
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurette - Making WRISTCUTTERS
- Storyboard Comparisons
Reviews
The purgatorial premise is pleasingly eccentric but, in the end, Wristcutters falls victim to its washed-out mood, and limps bloodlessly to a close.
A dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time.
Veering from witty to occasionally trite, Wristcutters: A Love Story has plenty of originality on its side, but never manages to be more than the sum of its self-consciously quirky parts.
A little self-consciously kooky but with an ace soundtrack that combines gypsy punksters Gogol Bordello with real-life plug-pullers this sure beats putting your head in the oven.
Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life.
For the better part of the journey this a bizarrely uplifting yarn - razor sharp, you might say.
Opportunities to comment on the ethical grey areas of suicide are mostly squandered and, as the pointless digressions begin to pile up, your mind begins to drift from the action on screen.
Enjoyably quirky black comedy that's clearly destined to become a cult movie amongst the Gothic contingent.
Despite being occasionally hilarious, director Goran Dukic should have toned down the wackiness.
Another indie director more interested in style than substance.
While it's quirky and intriguing, this is the kind of wilfully nutty black comedy that treads the extremely thin line between inventiveness and pretentiousness.
it is, like the limbo it portrays, a peculiar hybrid of recognisable, second-hand elements that somehow add up to something entirely sui generis - an idiosyncratic piece of magical realism whose characters are literally on the road to nowhere.
If you’re going to make a comedy about suicide, you’d better make sure the jokes land. There are people out there who could use a laugh.
Writer-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.
This director plies a sweetly humanistic art in potentially ghoulish circumstances. He achieves a minimalism that's equally touching and rib-tickling.
There are problems here, but they're of the good-natured variety -- the flaws of a smart film that aims high.
It's a shapeless, flavorless Sundance blob that rolls around for 85 of the longer minutes you'll find in a theater this year.
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