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.

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