Wilbur (Wants To Kill Himself)

2002
Denmark/UK
1h 51min
15

Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Written by: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen, Julia Davis

Two orphaned brothers - Wilbur (Sives) and Harbour (Rawlings) - run a musty old bookshop inherited from their father, until their mother (Henderson) walks into the shop one night and interrupts Wilbur's ham-fisted attempt to hang himself. Tender, touching and funny, this beautifully-observed film plays like a feel-good melodrama that contemplates death and despair.