We don’t know the others. Not even those with whom we share genes. Especially those of us who share genes. This is one of the reflections that can be deduced from the 14th feature film of Jim Jarmuschdivided into three parts in order to trace the links and particularities within as many groups of characters participating in family reunions as They walk between the absurd and the soberly captivating.
THE seemingly banal rhymes that these segments establish with each other through recurring appearances of cars, watches or boxes full of books could well come from the pen of the poet protagonist of Paterson (2016), Jarmusch’s ode to the pleasures and disappointments of everyday life, with which the new film shares a certain disinterest in ironic distancing and the impassive irony that characterized the author’s early works.
Father Mother Sister Brother It talks about the unwanted pressure that parents and their inheritance impose on their children, but also about the lives our parents lead. when they do not exercise suchand which we often do not take into account. Jarmusch, then, extends compassion in both directions and, as usual in his films, he does it with maximum discretion.
The most moving – and funny – moments from the film they occur during silencesin the pauses between words accompanied by sideways glances and in everything that the characters have stopped saying to each other, because the director detects hidden emotional activity in these seemingly empty spaces.
Always true to himselfat no time does he need to resort to traditional conflicts and resolutions to convey affections, reproaches and unexpressed desires while lets the film gain heat and bitternessand taking an almost elegiac tone, so that in the end, miraculously, the ordinary moments that we have contemplated take on enormous proportions.
Qualification
‘Father Mother Sister Brother’
- Director
Jim Jarmusch
- Gender
Drama
- Country
USA
- Synopsis
Film divided into three acts around the same event: the reunion of family members. Adult siblings reunite after years of not seeing each other, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with emotionally distant parents. Each of the three stories takes place in a different country: “Father” takes place in the United States, “Mother” in Dublin and “Sister Brother” in Paris.
- Scenario
Jim Jarmusch
- Duration
110 minutes
- Distributer
Avalon
- Distribution
- First
December 24
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Distribution:
Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling
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