1. 'Wristcutters: A Love Story' cuts right to the heart - The Tufts Daily
Eugene is a Russian musician whose entire family committed suicide - there's a hint of cultural stereotyping. Eugene lives with all of them in this particular ...
"Wristcutters: A Love Story" appeals to the morbid romantic, ironically reconciling the dark, hopeless idea of suicide with a love story. The movie stars a few cult-famous actors: Patrick Fugit from "Almost Famous" (2000), Shannyn Sossamon from "The Rules of Attraction" (2002), Will Arnett from "Arrested Development" - and infamous raspy-voiced singer Tom Waits.
2. Wristcutters: A Love Story. An Anti-Sartrean Tale? - Offscreen
The independent movie Wristcutters: A Love Story initially depicts the story of a young man named Zia, who is profoundly depressed. In the first scene ...
A comparative analysis between the American indie film Wristcutters: A Love Story and Jean-Paul Sartre’s play Hius Clos.
3. Wristcutters: A Love Story - Rotten Tomatoes
Despondent after breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) kills himself and wakes up in a bland purgatory populated by other suicides.
Despondent after breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) kills himself and wakes up in a bland purgatory populated by other suicides. He takes a job at Kamikaze Pizza and befriends a Russian rocker named Eugene (Shea Whigham) while trying to make the best of a very dull afterlife. Learning that his ex-girlfriend has also killed herself, Zia embarks on a road trip with Eugene to find her, picking up a feisty hitchhiker (Shannyn Sossamon) along the way.
4. 'Wristcutters' discovers life and love after death - Los Angeles Times
15 okt 2007 · Based on the novella “Kneller's Happy Campers” by an Israeli author, Etgar Keret, “Wristcutters” marks the feature debut of Croatian writer- ...
In an era in which movie plots often seem like variations on the same theme comes a breath of fresh air called "Wristcutters: A Love Story," a shaggy dog of a comedy about life and love after death -- in this case, life and love after suicide.
5. Bleeding hearts movie review & film summary (2007) | Roger Ebert
1 nov 2007 · "Wristcutters: A Love Story" stars Patrick Fugit as Zia, who has evolved from "Almost Famous" to almost dead. He has been forsaken by his girlfriend, Desiree.
Imagine that after you kill yourself, you don't go to heaven or hell but to an industrial wasteland where nothing works right, there are no good jobs, the
6. Ten Years Ago: Wristcutters: A Love Story - Films in Retrospective
24 okt 2017 · Rachel Breiwick heads back to the purgatory landscape of the magical realist dark comedy Wristcutters: A Love Story.
Rachel Breiwick heads back to the purgatory landscape of the magical realist dark comedy Wristcutters: A Love Story. In 2007, I was an actual wristcutter. I learned about self-harm from a friend an…
7. Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) - MUBI
Set in an otherworldly afterlife where suicidal residents reside after death, this dark, offbeat romantic comedy is based on the short novel by the talented ...
When Zia cuts his wrists, he enters an alternate afterlife where ‘suicidees’ bear the scars born from the manner in which they died. He meets a variety of oddball characters who embark on a roadtrip with him.
8. Movie Review - Wristcutters: A Love Story - Box Office Prophets
28 nov 2007 · In fact, Wristcutters, which is based on a short story by Etgar Keret, is so incredibly impressed by how clever its concept is that it ...
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9. 'Wristcutters: A Love Story' Inventively Imparts Life's Story After Death
2 nov 2007 · Shannyn Sossamon in “Wristcutters: A Love Story”. ... The film is saturated with religious symbolism. One can get bogged down in trying to decode ...
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10. Wristcutters: A Love Story - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
REVIEWED By Josh Rosenblatt, Fri., Nov. 2, 2007 ... One thing you have to say for the creators of Wristcutters: A Love Story, the new film adapted from a ...
Despite the film's good-natured sense of absurdity about the afterlife, it's not enough to make up for its lack of real humor or meaning.
11. Wristcutters: A Love Story | Reelviews Movie Reviews
Is there romance in the afterlife? Does the heart still burn with yearning after it no longer beats? Wristcutters: A Love Story, with a title that easily ...
Is there romance in the afterlife? Does the heart still burn with yearning after it no longer beats? Wristcutters: A Love Story, with a title that easily passes the
12. Movies - review - Wristcutters: A Love Story - BBC
17 nov 2007 · Feeling depressed about breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) decides to kill himself. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that ...
Suicide is just the beginning in this whimsical afterlife road trip.
13. Wristcutters: A Love Story - AV Club
18 okt 2007 · Exactly like Tom Arnold in The Kid & I a few years ago, Patrick Fugit opens Wristcutters: A Love Story by methodically putting his living ...
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