6.4 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
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.
Starring: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Irm HermannForeign | 100% |
Drama | 70% |
Dark humor | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1
German: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region B (A, C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Note: This film is available on Blu-ray as part of Arrow's The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection: Volume 3.
Arrow has been curating interesting collections of Rainer Werner Fassbinder films courtesy of both The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection: Volume 1 and The Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Collection: Volume 2, and now with this latest third volume. The first two editions offered some of Fassbinder's better known efforts like The Marriage of Maria Braun and The Merchant of Four
Seasons, and while this third collection offers titles that will no doubt be known by Fassbinder aficionados, it might present more "cult"-ish
productions.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.37:1. Arrow's insert booklet groups the films together in its informational verbiage about the restorations, as follows:
All films are presented in their original aspect ratios of 1.37:1* with mono sound. The restorations for The American Soldier, Gods of the Plague, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven and Satan's Brew were produced and provided by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation from original 35mm camera negatives scanned on an Arriscan film scanner at Arri Media GmbH in Munich. The Niklahausen Journey, Rio das Mortes and Fear of Fear were originally made for television, with restorations produced and provided by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation from original 16mm camera negatives, and are presented in standard definition.*See individual reviews, since not all aspect ratios are actually 1.37:1.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven features an LPCM Mono track in the original German. While there is scoring (by Peer Raben) and a perhaps unexpectedly fulsome amount of ambient environmental effects, this is another "talk fest", and as such the mono track provides more than capable support for an effective but frankly unambitious sound design. Dialogue is rendered cleanly and clearly throughout. Optional English subtitles are available.
Arrow has packaged Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven and Fear of Fear together on one disc, with the following supplements:
Fassbinder can admittedly probably be more than a little off putting for some when he's on his own particular soapbox, but Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is rather sly in its deconstruction of political skirmishes, using Emma as a stand in for everyday people who often feel like their pawns in their own life story. Technical merits are solid and the supplements very enjoyable.
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