Tom Tykwer

湯姆·提克威是當前德國影壇的新希望，從第一部劇情長片《垂死的瑪麗亞》(Deadly Maria)開始，他就讓觀眾看到與以往沉悶又自虐的德國片截然不同的風格，那便是速度與節(jié)奏感。從他97年的作品《冬日戀曲》(Winter Sleepers)來看就知道，其他導演拍冰雪紛飛的寒冬，多半會采取壓抑沉緩的調(diào)性，他卻完全反其道而行，像滑雪般的速度與流暢，讓多條故事線的發(fā)展時放時收，最后演變出教人驚訝又爆笑的結(jié)尾。1998年他拍出一部與基耶斯洛夫斯基《機遇之歌》結(jié)構(gòu)類似的三段式電影《疾走羅拉》(Run Lola Run)，以節(jié)奏強烈的電子音樂搭配十萬火急的奔跑，加上卡通化的角色，風靡了全世界。2000年他又再以風格類似的《飄流兩顆心》(The Princess and the Warrior)，贏得持續(xù)的好評與商業(yè)成績。2002年的《天堂》是他第一部英語片，也是他第一部走入國際制作的電影。2006年導演了話題之作《香水》。最新作品是由克里夫·歐文和娜奧米·沃茨主演的《國際組織》。
Tom Tykwer (born 23 May 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German film director best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run (1998).
Tykwer was fascinated by film from an early age. He started making amateur Super 8 films at the age of eleven and later helped out at a local arthouse cinema to see more movies, including those he was too young to buy tickets for. After graduating from high school, he unsuccessfully applied to numerous film schools around Europe and moved to Berlin, where he worked as a projectionist. In 1987, at the age of 22, he became the programmer of the Moviemento cinema and was known to German directors as a highly respected film buff.
In Berlin, Tykwer met and befriended the filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim, who urged him to create stories from his own experience and suggested that Tykwer record arguments with his girlfriend at the time, and turn them into a short film. Because (1990) was screened at the Hof Film Festival and well-received by the audience, which inspired Tykwer to continue pursuing filmmaking. He made a second short film, Epilog (1992), that plunged him into personal financial debt, but gained him valuable technical filmmaking experience.
Tykwer wrote the screenplay for -and directed- his first feature film, Deadly Maria, which aired on German television and saw a limited theatrical release in Germany and the international film festival circuit.
In 1994, Tykwer founded the production company X Filme Creative Pool with Stefan Arndt, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy. Tykwer and Becker wrote the screenplay for Life Is All You Get while working on Tykwer's second feature, Wintersleepers (1997), a much bigger and complex production than Deadly Maria. Wintersleepers brought Tykwer to the attention of German cineastes and film festivals, but Tykwer was struggling financially. He knew he needed a new film, and the result was Run Lola Run (1998), which became the most successful German film of 1998, scored $7 million at the US box office, and elevated Tykwer to international fame.
As Lola was becoming a success worldwide, Tykwer was already at work on his next film, The Princess and the Warrior, shot in his hometown of Wuppertal. He had meanwhile started dating Franka Potente, the star of Run Lola Run, and she appeared in The Princess and the Warrior as well. The movie centered on a love story between a nurse and a former soldier.
Miramax produced his next film, Heaven (2002), based on a screenplay by the late Polish filmmaker, Krzysztof Kie?lowski. It was shot in English, starred Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi, and filmed in Turin and Tuscany.
After Heaven, Tykwer felt creatively exhausted and personaly adrift, having broken up with Franka Potente. He was approached by French producers to film a short contribution to Paris, je t'aime (2006), a film comprising 20 short films by many famous directors depicting love in Paris. Tykwer shot the 10-minute short film, True, with Natalie Portman and Melchior Beslon. He shot the film quickly with almost no pre-production, and the result was a tiny masterpiece that Tykwer later said, "symbolises an entire life for me, in just ten minutes."
Tykwer's next film was an adaptation of the novel Perfume by the German novelist Patrick Süskind, and was filmed in the Spanish cities of Figueras, Girona and Barcelona.