Winner of the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s warm and perceptive study in familial dynamics stars Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps, Mayim Bialik, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat and Tom Waits.
Jarmusch's delightful film takes the form of a triptych. The three chapters all concern the relationships between adult children reconnecting or coming to terms with aging or lost parents, which take place in the present, and each in a different country. Siblings Jeff and Emily (Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik) check up on their hermetic father (Tom Waits) in rural New Jersey; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Charlotte Rampling) in Dublin; and twins Skye and Billy (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. 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.
[W]ith his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he [Jim Jarmusch] is giving us something new and personal...It is a film to savour." The Guardian
"What Jarmusch has called his 'quiet film' speaks with clarity as one from the heart." Sight & Sound
"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." - Hollywood Reporter