Indie stalwart Jim Jarmusch just unveiled his latest feature, Father Mother Sister Brother, at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a six-and-a-half-minute ovation. Built as a triptych, the movie is playing in competition — a first for Jarmusch whose Coffee and Cigarettes was here on the Lido out of competition in 2003. In a video captured by Deadline post-screening …
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Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But then he comes along with a film as delicate and lovely, as singular and perfectly realized as Father Mother Sister Brother and quietly floors you. What a pleasure to see a study of family relationships so entirely unconcerned with banal platitudes, emotional …
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Jim Jarmusch has made anthology films before: Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In fact, he could claim to be the pre-eminent specialist in this now very unfashionable movie form. But with his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he is giving us something new and personal. …
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