A feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.
Carefully constructed as a triptych, Father Mother Sister Brother depicts three variations on family relationships in three different countries: a reclusive father receives a visit from his grown children in Northeast US, two sisters reunite with their novelist mother in Dublin, and two adult twins return to Paris to deal with a family tragedy.
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother
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Critics
“It’s a film whose simplicity, sweetness and unvarnished ordinariness make it seem almost a miracle.”
David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter 31/08/2025
Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 2025, it
Jim JARMUSCH
Born in 1953, Jim Jarmusch is an American screenwriter, director, producer and musician. He studied literature at Columbia University before enrolling in New York University’s graduate film program. He works as an assistant for Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders before directing his first feature, Permanent Vacation (1982).
In 1984, his film Stranger than Paradise was awarded the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. He emerged as a major voice in American independent cinema, and his cinematographic universe, characterized by dark humorous tone, gentle melancholy and a reinterpretation of genre conventions gained international recognition.
Then, he directed a dozen films, which continued to be critically acclaimed. He revisited the western with Dead Man (1995), the samurai film with Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and the film noir with The Limits of Control (2009).
A regular at the Cannes Film Festival, he presented Broken Flowers (2005) which won the Grand Prix, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Paterson (2016) and The Dead Don’t Die (2019).
In 2025, his latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
