Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2025
Father Mother Sister Brother is a feature film, though carefully constructed 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. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country. Father is set in the north-east US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies: quiet, observational and non-judgemental a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.
Jim Jarmusch is an American director and screenwriter whose darkly humorous tone and transcendence of genre conventions established him as a major independent filmmaker. Jarmusch studied at Columbia University and at New York University’s graduate film program, where he directed his first feature-length film, Permanent Vacation (1980; released 1986). His next movie, Stranger Than Paradise (1984), established his reputation as a new voice in independent cinema. Jarmusch continued to earn acclaim for films such as the offbeat comedies Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1992), and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). Jarmusch won the Grand Prix at the 2005 Cannes film festival for Broken Flowers (2005).
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