Father Mother Sister Brother
Jim Jarmusch’s (Paterson, Down By Law) Golden Lion-winning triptych about the sometimes awkward relationship between parents and their adult children. Featuring a star-studded cast including Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits.
Father Mother Sister Brother is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country. Father is set in the north-east US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies: quiet, observational and non-judgemental – a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.
Father Mother Sister Brother is a kind of anti-action film, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate – almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. (source: Venice Film Festival)