HEAVEN CAN WAIT

The incorrigible womaniser Henry never expected this when he is unexpectedly recalled from his earthly existence and finds himself in the antechamber to hell: Instead of granting him entry, ‘His Excellency’ is unsure whether Henry has actually come to the right place. So he tells him his life story, including a voluminous list of sins, which also reads like a best-of of the all-too-human transgressions from other Lubitsch films ... In his first colour film, Lubitsch once again satirises the bourgeois ideas of life and morality of his time and takes on church representatives, of all people, who found little pleasure in the trivialised portrayal of the frivolous lifestyle of this likeable sinner. But the audience liked it all the more. (Florian Widegger)