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Posts tagged as “Film”

German Movie Night: “Master of the Universe”

March’s German Movie Night at the Goethe-Institut features Marc Bauder’s 2013 “Master of the Universe.” From Goethe-Institut New York: Rainer Voss used to be one of Germany’s leading investment bankers. He generated profits running into many millions of euros. Now he talks for the first time about his work from a former trading floor at the top of a disused…

German Movie Night: “Lila Lila”

[su_youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDUQWZLe8Do] Alain Gsponer’s 2009 film follows the love-struck David, who impresses his beloved, the literature student Marie, when he publishes a novel. Too bad it isn’t his …

New Nordic Cinema: “Virgin Mountain/Fúsi”

From Scandinavia House: Directed by Dagur Kári (Iceland, Denmark, 2015). Fúsi (Gunnar Jónsson) is 43 and still living at home with his mother. Shy and awkward, he has yet to find the courage to enter the adult world. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key to him. When a bubbly woman and an eight-year old girl unexpectedly enter…

New Nordic Cinema: “Virgin Mountain/Fúsi”

From Scandinavia House: Directed by Dagur Kári (Iceland, Denmark, 2015). Fúsi (Gunnar Jónsson) is 43 and still living at home with his mother. Shy and awkward, he has yet to find the courage to enter the adult world. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key to him. When a bubbly woman and an eight-year old girl unexpectedly enter…