Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven Page #9

Synopsis: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm
Production: Criterion Collection
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
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Year:
1975
108 min
166 Views

Come on!

Mother, what's all the palaver about?

Palaver?

I want your friend to take back

his filthy article.

And I'll stay sitting here until he does.

No one's interested in whether

you're sitting here or not.

You're just making yourself

look ridiculous.

Who to? To these people here?

It's impossible to make myself

look ridiculous to them.

Not these people.

Mom!

Can you even remember

what Dad looked like?

Why do you ask?

But it's true.

Sometimes when I want to recall him,

my head's all empty.

And yet, I have nothing else

in my head but Hermann.

Have I?

I don't know, Mom.

I don't know.

Come on now!

No, Corinna. I'm staying here.

As you wish.

I'm going again. Ciao, Mom!

- Corinna!

- Yes?

Are you successful with your singing?

Yes, Mom. Thanks.

It's okay.

Ciao!

Ciao, Mom!

Good evening!

Good evening!

I heard you were sitting here.

But I have to lock up now.

Go ahead and lock up!

I can't lock up as long

as you're sitting here.

Then I can't help you.

Let me take you outside!

You can come back again tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

Yes, tomorrow, and the day after,

and every day.

But at night, you see,

at night, it's a problem for me...

because I can't go home then.

and this evening,

there's "heaven and earth" for dinner...

with blood sausage.

"Heaven and earth"?

Creamed potatoes and apples?

Yes, with blood sausage.

With blood sausage.

There's more than enough.

Maybe you'd care to join me?

Come along with me!

But what would your wife say?

My wife has been dead a long time.

I live alone...

I'm alone a lot, you know.

I'm alone a lot, too.

There you are!

Then come along with me!

And we can consider...

how to make sure the truth...

is written about your husband.

How do you know that about my husband?

I read that article,

and I knew immediately...

that it was a pack of lies.

Really?

My God!

Come along!

We're going home...

to eat "heaven and earth"...

with blood sausage,

and to think out a plan.

"Heaven and earth!"

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German: [ˈʁaɪ̯nɐ ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈfasˌbɪndɐ]; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely productive. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as well as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor. Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. more…

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