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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Family Triptych

‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Family Triptych

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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Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych | Venice film festival

Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych | Venice film festival

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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12-year-old boy killed by alligator had brain injury from his mother, not autism: report

12-year-old boy killed by alligator had brain injury from his mother, not autism: report

article Bryan Vasquez (New Orleans Police Department) The 12-year-old boy who was killed by an alligator after escaping his bedroom window in New Orleans had a traumatic brain injury from his mother, not autism, according to reports.  Bryan Vasquez, who is nonverbal, was first reported missing the morning of Aug. 14 after reportedly escaping through his bedroom window. Police didn’t …

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In New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a mother, a surgeon and a police chief look back and find hope

In New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a mother, a surgeon and a police chief look back and find hope

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, many initially thought they had escaped the worst, that is, until the storm surge overwhelmed the levees, breaking the city’s floodwalls. As the days went on, the situation became worse and worse. Hurricane …

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Surprise! Baby girl born at Burning Man to mother who wasn’t expecting

Surprise! Baby girl born at Burning Man to mother who wasn’t expecting

After decades of debauchery and an untold number of conceptions, revelers at Burning Man celebrated a rare birth at Black Rock City on Wednesday morning, after a festivalgoer unexpectedly went into labor on the Playa. “It’s an absolute miracle,” said new father Kasey, 39, of Salt Lake City, who asked that only the family’s first names be used to protect …

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Beloved mother died horrific death days after giving birth ‘when blundering hospital let untreated intimate wound turn septic’

Beloved mother died horrific death days after giving birth ‘when blundering hospital let untreated intimate wound turn septic’

A woman tragically died after giving birth to her newborn son in Canada, with her grieving husband blaming the hospital for failing to recognize her symptoms or prescribe medication. Ravinder Kaur Sidhu, 40, and her husband Gurinder Sidhu, 35, had traveled to Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario and had their baby boy on June 19.  According to Gurinder, there was …

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