FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER Luminaries

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

Winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, legendary indie auteur Jim Jarmusch’s newest work is a wry gem about the timeworn drift of familial intimacy. In this collection of three quietly humorous stories, families struggle to bridge or avoid the distance that has grown between them. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps and Charlotte Rampling, each episode concerns a different family in a different country — one in New Jersey, the others in Dublin and Paris — but connected through thematic and visual motifs. The awkward silences between the adult children and their aging but lively parents are wide enough to drive a tractor-trailer through, and in these moments of suppressed expression reside the failures of vulnerability. With guarded hush, the characters perform a ballet of emotional avoidance, slipping into falsehoods, half-truths and superficial niceties. Jarmusch finds the tension and the humor in these lacunae, as his characters attempt to hide themselves but can’t find the words for convincing cover. The final chapter turns many of these themes on their head and gives voice to the unspoken affinities animating family dynamics, in which enduring love and total comprehension need not be one and the same. –Travis Weedon

Jim Jarmusch is a film director, writer, musician, producer and artist. A prominent figure in independent cinema, his films include PERMANENT VACATION (1980), STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984), DOWN BY LAW (1986), MYSTERY TRAIN (1989), NIGHT ON EARTH (1991), COFFEE AND CIGARETTES (2003) and BROKEN FLOWERS (2005).

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Screenings

October 22, 5:30 p.m.

Chinese 1

October 24, 11:30 a.m.

Chinese 6

October 24, 11:30 1.m.

Chinese 6

Details

Country: USA, Ireland, France

Year: 2025

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Screenwriter: Jim Jarmusch

Producers: Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, Atilla Yücer

Executive Producers: Efe Cakarel, Niamh Fagan, Jim Jarmusch, Alex C. Lo, Zane Meyer, Lorenzo Mieli, Annamaria Morelli, Jason Ropell, Anthony Vaccarello

Directors of Photography: Frederick Elmes, Yorick Le Saux

Editor: Affonso Gonçalves

Production Designers: Marco Bittner Rosser, Mark Friedberg

Costume Designer: Catherine George

Music: Jim Jarmusch

Cast/Featuring: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat

Running Time (minutes): 110

Languages: English, French

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