The film embodies a series of events around these lost souls and sad drifts that are the result of suicide in the human world. One day, the sad young man faces more challenges to find the girl who has spontaneously inspired his last act of self-destruction.
Wristcutters is a small film of ambitions nicely scaled to the performances and story. Who knew that affectless characters could be so oddly affecting?
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.
It's certainly melancholic, occasionally funny, and ultimately life-affirming. But overall, it feels as if writer-director Goran Dukic dropped a rather promising ball.
San Francisco Chronicle
November 02, 2007
Wristcutters is a cut above most low-budget American indies, with something original to say about the human condition and an artful way of saying it.
It's such an original piece of work and I love the deliberately bleak cinematography.
Seattle Times
November 02, 2007
All this sounds rather grim, and indeed it is -- but this backward Heaven Can Wait is also, thanks to [director] Dukic's inventive imagination, surprisingly involving and ultimately sweet.
It misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits.
