La bottega dei suicidi ï ¿½ ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine

The plot
At the center of the story are the members of the Tuvache family, “obscure” characters but very nice even in their sad eccentricity. There are the parents: the skinny father with a Gable mustache, Mishima (Bernard Alane's original voice), the fleshy and falsely affable mother, Lucrece (voice of Isabelle Spade), and three children. The boys are also in line with the family style, all three, except one: Alan (Kacey Mottet Klein), the third child who will bring some havoc to the family. No less extravagant, then, is the business that mum and dad have been managing with satisfaction for many years and that makes them live peacefully and in peace with the whole world: they help would-be suicides to give up life. It seems that the Tuvaches lack nothing to be happy, although the place and the period in which they live are not the best. Their existence runs smoothly in a gray and gloomy city where they have their home and their shop, which is booming precisely because it exploits this climate of inconsolable and widespread sadness. A small emporium, strangely colorful and cheerful, despite the melancholy and dejection that is felt in the neighborhood where it is located.

Mr. Mishima shows weapons to would-be suicides - The suicide shop ï ¿½ ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine

A sad area, surrounded by very high skyscrapers that do not allow the sun to bring a little light and vitality, immersed in an equally distressing city, impregnated with smog and beaten by acid rain. An ideal place to make their shop grow and proliferate which, thanks to the apparent gaiety it transmits, seems the only lifeline. The Tuvaches, in fact, have invented an activity that needs precisely this atmosphere to attract customers who, unfortunately, are always increasing and more and more eager to put an end to their earthly adventure. Choosing, however, how to say goodbye to life is not an easy task, even when you are fully convinced that you want to do it and, so many desperate people are forced to resort to the services of the unusual couple's "The shop of suicides". Driven and enticed even more by a slogan that would convince even the most doubtful of the high professionalism offered: "Guaranteed specialties: either dead or reimbursed". And so, in this context where there is no longer a difference between day and night and people are resigned, the only sensible thing to do seems to say goodbye to everything and everyone in a big way, because if you can't live great at least yes. can die with taste and class. It will be enough to go to Mishima and Lucrece Tuvache and rely completely on them to face the last step, as if it were the only moment of glory of one's squalid and useless existence. They are the only ones, in fact, able to guarantee the much desired departure from this world that is slipping more and more into the abyss, in which even taking one's life by throwing itself under a car on the street, for example, does not lead to the desired result but only to a hefty fine.

The suicide shop ï ¿½ ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine

Years pass and Mishima, the father gloomy in appearance and soul, and Lucrece, the mother with a lively appearance but with a sad disposition, carry on the family and their singular activity, day after day, a suicide after another always under the banner of the greatest professionalism. Between advice to the client on duty who wants to take his own life on which tool is best suited to his character to perform the extreme act, in fact the choice is very wide and varied, and some suggestions launched here and there to fascinate the most demanding, they have put up a gay ... or almost ... little family. In short, they have everything, what more could they ask for in life? They are parents of three children and run a thriving business that helps those in need, boasting the valuable merit of supporting those who prefer to say goodbye to life rather than move on. And, above all, they are sure that this business will never experience a crisis, especially in a moment of economic and social fall like the one in which the whole world is experiencing. The particularly negative period, in fact, will always guarantee its success and, consequently, will build the fortune of "La bottega dei suicidi", because everyone is looking for those who can offer the best, most effective but also trendy tools to be a suicidal aspirant but strictly with style. The Tuvaches believe so much in the validity of their shop that they recommend and sell only the highest quality accessories. Taking a tour in the shop, you can find from razor blades to cut the veins which, however, just to guarantee their effectiveness, must be rusted so that you can eventually die from tetanus, to the simplest weights to attach to the neck to jump into the sea. Passing through the traditional hanging nooses, which can be of different types and prices, without forgetting, finally, also the sidearms, poisonous mushrooms and those who prefer to do away using the most diverse poisons, the tools loved by the ladies. As the store fully reflects its function and its objective, with that name that leaves no doubt, so everything in their life must reflect the meaning of their activity, everything must recall this grotesque feeling of death. Therefore, the children also follow this path, starting with the names that their parents have chosen for them.

Vincent and Marilyn Tuvache ï ¿½ ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine

The three Tuvache boys, in fact, are called: Vincent, Marilyn and Alan, all three names inspired by suicidal characters (the Dutch painter Van Gogh, the American actress Monroe and the English mathematician Mathison Turing), to stay on the subject of course . And so that everything is in perfect "harmony" with the philosophy of life of the family, even the tender little ones have a suffering look and spirit, in line with the sweet sadness of the house and, above all, of the shop. Although these, in truth, are not characteristics common to all three brothers. In fact, everything would be fine if the "cheerful" Tuvache family stopped only at Vincent, so similar to dad, and Marylin, so similar to mom, but Mishima and Lucrece also gave birth to little Alan, completely different from parents and brothers and so far from the circumstance aspect of the Tuvache house. The newcomer, unlike his older brothers, does not think about spending his time between gas cylinders and guns of all kinds, his world is completely different from that of his family so similar to the "Addams family". Alan was born with cheerful eyes sparkling with happiness and optimism, in spite of everything and everyone, starting with the name that dad and mom chose for him, as if to mark his destiny and his character. In fact, nature prevails over family customs and the smallest of the Tuvache clan does not change even as he grows up, becoming a real worry for Mishima, Lucrece, Vincent and Marylin.

Mrs. Lucrece Tuvache and little Alan ï ¿½ ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine

As the years pass, in fact, the child does not just show his incomprehensible optimism and his unjustified desire to be happy and joyful but tries in every way to transform all the others into happy and satisfied people with their lives, sending upstream thus, the work, the activity and the ten-year reputation of “La bottega dei suicidi”. Alan is increasingly cheerful and this becomes an irritating problem for the home menage because, despite the attempts to darken the child and bring him back on the "right path" of a "healthy and understandable unhappiness", he resists and, indeed, does everything to take away potential customers from desperate parents. The little one does not want to resign himself to this malaise, which affects people more and more frequently and which makes the fortune of the family business, Alan is hopelessly cheerful and confident and, above all, wants and expects everyone to be. This situation, of course, wreaks havoc in the Tuvache house, breaking a balance and a macabre habit that have consolidated over the years. And if, however, Alan's irrepressibly happy and positive nature cannot change, neither can that of the other members of the family, first of all the parents who, to save their honor, try with every possible system, even the most cynical, to extinguish the annoying enthusiasm and incredible joie de vivre of the youngest child. Ah, even if Alan were like his older brothers, sad and depressed, everything would still be perfect in the Tuvache house and, unfortunately, it is not so! The child's sparkling and lively eyes have nothing in common with those marked by the dark dark circles of Mr. Mishima and with the strictly fatal but affable prosperity of Mrs. Lucrece. It is therefore necessary to change in every way this son who represents the "black sheep" of the family, it is also necessary to intervene with the most evil and extreme methods. All, in short, to boycott his innate good humor and to bring Alan back into the funeral and melancholy furrow of the family tradition, all to dampen his irrepressible enthusiasm. To extreme ills, therefore, extreme remedies such as when, for example, the progenitor teaches him to smoke to fully breathe the substances that cause cancer.

Mrs. Lucrece Tuvache and little Alan ï ¿½ ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine

Conclusions
“La bottega dei suicidi”, distributed by Videa, is therefore a hymn to life told with a very pleasant and intelligent black humor. A passionate invitation to live through the happy eyes of Alan who, already at the first cry, showed his bursting vitality, in front of Mishima's desperate gaze.
Leconte has achieved the difficult goal of bringing to the big screen, in a musical and in 3D, the theme of suicide and how to deal with it, telling it in a comic and macabre perspective at the same time. For this the film has received positive reviews and awards, after its preview presentation at the 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The Italian public, at least those under the age of 18, however, risked not being able to see this delightful cartoon, because the Film Review Commission initially banned it, retracing its steps almost immediately. This decision, unique in the world, infuriated Videa and the director who had defined the ban as `` ridiculous '', precisely because the film was written for the little ones who, perhaps, more than adults are able to fully grasp the message of the film, as they can identify with little Alan, a symbol of the exuberance and joie de vivre typical of children.

	Original title:	The magasin des suicides
	Country:	France, Canada, Belgium
	Year:	2012
	Gender:	Entrainment
	Duration:	79 '
	Directed by:	Patrice Leconte
	Official site:	http://www.labottegadeisuicidi.it/
	Production:	ARP S lection, Caramel Film, Diabolo Films, Entre Chien et Loup, Kaibou Productions, La Petite Reine
	Distribution:	CDE screen
	Exit date:	December 28, 2012 at the cinema

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