US EditionMovie Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s Starry ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Families Struggle to Connect
Jim Jarmusch's triptych film examines complex family bonds through three stories set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, highlighting estrangement and connection.
- Director Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother just screened at the New York Film Festival and opens in theaters on December 24th, 2025.
- Jarmusch frames the drama around family estrangement and constructed personas, focusing on how parents and adult children expose mismatches during reunions and stilted conversations.
- In the first chapter, Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik play siblings visiting their father in the Northeast, with Driver as Jeff and Bialik as Emily at a snowy New Jersey lakeside cabin.
- The Venice prize and strong reviews raise the film's cultural visibility after it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year, with critics praising it as Jarmusch's best since Broken Flowers.
- The film's minimalist score and deadpan approach craft a blend of melancholy and wry humor, with recurring visual motifs and performances that alter earlier impressions.
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Jim Jarmusch, world-renowned director and screenwriter, spoke about his new film Father Mother Sister Brother.
No one chooses their parents or their children and perhaps that is why among the feelings that most condition this hypothetical unconditional love are that of strangeness and discomfort.In his wonderful new film, Father Mother Sister Brother, Golden Lion of the last Venice festival, American Jim Jarmusch investigates with his subtle look and his sharp humor in three variants of that bond. A father-child, an all-powerful mother and two orphaned t…
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Movie Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s starry ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ families struggle to connect
Jim Jarmusch invites audiences into three family gatherings of adult children in his gentle tryptic “Father Mother Sister Brother,” starring Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett and Tom Waits.
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