German film director Tom Tykwer, 59, plans to continue making movies, even at the age of 98, he told the German magazine “Spiegel”. He expressed his incomprehension regarding his colleague Quentin Tarantino, who has announced that he will stop making films after his next project. Tykwer believes Tarantino still has at least ten more films in him.
Tykwer’s new film “Das Licht” will open the Berlinale on February 13. The movie tells the story of a middle-class Berlin family, whose conflicts reflect the major themes of our time, from the refugee crisis to climate change. According to Tykwer, he wants to “capture the cacophony of the present and at the same time show what cinema can do with it”. He was one of the authors and directors of the TV series “Babylon Berlin” in the past.
Tykwer sees “Das Licht” as a stocktaking of the failures of his generation: “We started the new millennium by unleashing the markets and then just watched as things unfolded.” He finds it “shocking that we are expected to accept it as reality if someone like Elon Musk uses a giant monitor to kick off an AfD election campaign”. For him, it is like a scene straight out of George Orwell’s “1984”, a new face for Big Brother. “That’s a film idea. Where have we even arrived?” he asked.