How Head Full of Honey Production Designer Isabel von Forster Creates a Beautiful Trip

A grandfather is losing his memory to Alzheimer’s, and the family member with the most patience and understanding for his gentle if frustrated, increasingly addled ways, is a child. It was the premise of actor-turned-director Til Schweiger’s 2014 German hit, Honig im Kopf, and four years later, he revisits the universal concept for Anglophone audiences in the homonymous Head Full of Honey.

Nick Nolte revives the role of Amadeus (in the original: Amandus,