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Tom Tykwer Talks Kaleidoscopic, Politically-Charged Berlinale Opener ‘The Light’: “The Crisis Has Been Showing Its Face For A Decade & We’re Waking Up Now”
Tom Tykwer Talks Berlinale Opener ‘The Light’: “The Crisis Has Been Showing It’s Face For At Least A Decade & We're Waking Up To It Now”
Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz play chaotic, comfortably-off, late 40s couple Tim and Milena Engels, who are parents to 17-year-twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and John (Julius Gause), and eight-year-old Dio (Elyas Eldridge). I started to work on this film three years ago or more and now it couldn’t be a more challenging and fitting moment to have this movie open, both in general, and in particular the Berlinale, and with Tricia Tuttle in charge, who so far is doing an incredible job in communicating a new festival idea. To have a movie, in this super tense time period, so close to elections, that with a lot of passion, energy and love investigates most of the subjects that people are battling about now, I couldn’t be happier to crash into this moment with this thing that I’ve done.
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