Father Mother Sister Brother
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“You can choose your friends and your lovers, but you can’t choose your family”
Overview
Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Lion-winning Father Mother Sister Brother is a quiet triptych of family reunions led by a typically stacked cast including Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling and Vicky Kreips. A brother and sister visit their dottery old father in the snowy U.S. countryside; in Dublin, an aging novelist hosts her annual tea gathering with her two daughters; then somewhere in Paris a pair of twins go through their parents’ personal effects.
Winner: Golden Lion
“This lilting, lyrical study of parent-child relationships is an offering of sublime tenderness and delicate observation”
“Deeply pleasing and gently quietist... something new and personal”
“A wondrous interlude, and Jarmusch at his best”
Why You Should See This Film
Putting a new spin to his Coffee and Cigarettes formula of people in rooms chatting over refreshments, Jim Jarmusch’s latest leans away from the coolest cats he knows to dress Sunday best and dwell on the discomfort of infrequently catching up with one’s folks. Lingering on awkward pauses, crumbs of small talk and shy attempts at connection, Father Mother Sister Brother hints at all the worries, regrets and small melancholies that well up as one realises there’s only so many more of these meetings left – all expressed with offbeat stylings and a pinch of wry wit; it’s a Jarmusch picture after all.
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