Wristcutters: A Love Story
- inventive
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
Our read · Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive comedy · romance · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Wristcutters
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