Le Magasin des Suicides

The Suicide Shop

Sat 17 Nov

Cinema £7.90 (£6.50) including booking fee

Director: Patrice Leconte

Country: France / Canada / Belgium

Cast: Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet Klein

Year of Release: 2012

Subtitled

Certificate: 15

Length of film: 79mins

Part of a season of highlights from the French Film Festival UK 2012.

Adapted from the novel by Jean Teulé, this quirky animation imagines a city so sad that people have no taste for living; a city where the most successful shop is the one that sells poisons and ropes to help you end your life.

But the owner has just had a new baby – and he’s the embodiment of joie de vivre…