Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

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Summary: 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. (imdb)

AKA: Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel

Genre: Drama

Country: West Germany

Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab

Starring: Gottfried John, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven

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na	JooJoo	8	T₉
Both endings have value - I prefer the American version.
na	ari	84	T₉
na	Ibn Salami	7	T₆
The german ending is incomplete and dissatisfying. The US ending is irritatingly happy. I think I'd give it an 8 if the last scene was filmed.
na	kronstadtli	90	T₁₀
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na	allisoncm	80	T₉
na	Moribunny	83	T₁₀
A great movie about cynicism, gullibility and the exploitability of loss. As usual Fassbinder uses the minimalism, stylishness and stageyness of a soap-opera to convey something deep and complex more tangibly. Here and there he exaggerates and makes it too contrived for its own good, but not so much as to ruin this excellent movie.
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Average Tier 7.31 from 35 Rankings