‘Heaven Can Wait’ and Lubitsch’s Love of Romance’s Paradoxes
Heaven Can Wait is Lubitsch’s most successful film due to his ability to turn a period-piece into an enchanting story about the human condition.
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Slouching Toward Redemption: Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Heaven Can Wait’
There's a rotten core at the center of Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait. No matter how engaging I find Haskell and Sariss's enchantment with the film, I cannot accede to their critical adulation of it and of Henry.
Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘The Clan’ + ‘A Bigger Splash’ + ‘Man Down’ + ‘Heaven Can Wait’
An old favourite rides to the rescue.