Masters
Masters presents new works by the world’s most recognized and prominent filmmakers. Past films in the Masters programme include Michael Haneke’s Cache and Ang Lee’s
Brokeback
Mountain .
Among many amazing works include Italian director, Gianni Amelio’s The Missing Star, a film that focuses on the gap between West and East through the character of Vincenzo, an engineer who embarks on a life-altering journey. He sets off to after a Chinese delegation buys a blast furnace from his company, and discovers there’s a flaw in the piece. He ventures off in an attempt to fix the piece, an obsessive man determined to be good.
Watch The Missing Star on Thursday September 14th at 9:00 p.m. and Saturday September 16th at 3:00 p.m. in
Paramount 1.
Margarethe von Trotta’s I Am the Other Woman— also in the Masters programme—unfolds the story of a woman who becomes the object of affection of a young engineer. Robert Fabry, played by August Diehl, checks into a hotel in
Frankfurt and becomes involved with a promiscuous, drunken woman played by Katja Riemann. Following their night of passion leads to her disappearance and then her surprising appearance at his law firm—where she claims to have no recollection of meeting him.
Watch I Am the Other Woman on Friday September 15th at 9:00 p.m. in the Visa Screening Room (Elgin) and Saturday September 16th at 11:45 a.m. in
Paramount 4.
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