Word: mira
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mysteriously connected with the characters, Suspicions of what the connection is compel you through the book. You need to know why this woman is spending her time strolling in solitude along a Maine beach, why she is spending her summer remembering, why it all began 40 years ago, with Mira...
...Mira Nair '79 and Felipe M. Noguera '77 gave the winning speeches in this year's Boylston speaking contest last night before more than 200 people in Boylston Hall...
...politically naive audience. In that respect, Mother Kusterstells a typical Fassbinder story. A man has gone berserk in a factory, killing his boss's son and then killing himself. The press exploits his family and distorts the picture of the man. His wife (Mother Kusters, played by Brigitte Mira), deserted by her children, seeks comfort where she can find it. First, with the Thalmanns, a couple of armchair communists who ask Mother K. to "unburden" herself to them. Herr Thalmann tells Mother K. that her husband "killed to help others." She tells him "you put it so nicely." The Thalmanns...
Without the dancers (June Kinoshita, Mira Nair, Maura Moynihan, Laurie Merrick) the plot would not hold together well, nor would it be as exciting. The dancers' movements are poetic, blending with the words and the music so thoroughly that they are inseparable. The different elements explain and express each other...
...good. For Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven alone would never earn the German director the level of status and respect his name now commands, and a final verdict on Fassbinder still seems far off in the distant future. This 1975 release relates the tale of an ageing housewife (Brigitte Mira) whose insulated petty-bourgeois world crumbles when her husband suddenly goes on a suicidal-homocidal rampage at his job. Sensing that something must be seriously amiss in an existence that drove her spouse to self-destruction, the elderly frau reaches out to those who people her reality, only to find...