Father Mother Sister Brother
Director: Jim Jarmusch Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits
Independent film icon Jim Jarmusch won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival with his first film in 6 years. Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult twins called back to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy.
“Returning to the serial format of earlier work like “Night on Earth” (1991), Jim Jarmusch’s prize-winning latest film looks at adult sibling relationships in the long shadow of a parent. It’s typically chill and even low-key, as one might expect from a filmmaker who amusingly kept his shades on even while accepting the Golden Lion at Venice, yet a touching vulnerability settles in, shedding the arch deadpan associated with many of his movies.” ~ Nicholas Rapold, BFI