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Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

Drama | 110 minutes
3,20 10 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 110 minuten

Country: United States / Italy / France / Ireland

Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Stars: Tom Waits, Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik

IMDb score: 6,7 (3.775)

Releasedate: 24 December 2025

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Father Mother Sister Brother plot

In three separate chapters, the relationship between adult children and their parents is explored. The children reunite after years apart. A certain unresolved tension is palpable. The family members are confronted with their strained relationship with their distant parents, but the relationship between them is also examined.

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filmfan0511

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A very natural, cool, dryly comic slice of life, including many awkward silences, long car rides, and hidden glances full of jealousy, pain, sadness, and love. Uneasy family situations and the distance between parents and their children are central. However, Jarmush never passes judgment; it's all pure observation. As a result, there's no real synthesis or eureka moment in the film, but the meandering nature certainly has something to it. Story number 2—Mother—was my personal favorite. The silences, glances, and jabs between the three women were cutting and painful, in a very simple, undramatic way. Fantastic performances by Blanchett, Krieps, and especially Charlotte Rampling as the difficult-to-read mother who nevertheless exudes a silent authority. Story 1 is the driest and funniest, although I didn't really care for the characters there, and story 3 lasted a bit too long for me, although it does have a nice conclusion that ends the film just a little less cynically.

The soundtrack is also cool and fresh, with Anika's "Spooky" as a highlight. The same goes for the visuals and cinematography. Despite the banality of the situations, Jarmush's camerawork often gives it a poetic quality, especially in the final chapter.

3.5*.

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J. Clouseau

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While so many filmmakers pour blood, sweat, and tears into elaborate and well-developed storylines, you might as well just rake together a handful of short films and call the result a movie. Relatos Salvajes did it with six short films, while Jim Jarmusch limited himself to three in Father Mother Sister Brother. And promptly won the Golden Lion for it.

Of course, I'm being a bit hasty, and there are plenty of clever parallels and contrasts to be found that create a coherence between the three "chapters" of this film, but anyone expecting, for example, three storylines to intertwine and converge will be disappointed. Each chapter has a lot to offer: Tom Waits as a disorganized father and Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik as his children, suffocating with vicarious embarrassment, in the first. Charlotte Rampling as a dominant mother figure in the second. Two unknown actors, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat, who seem like real brother and sister in the third. There are so many witty dialogues and humorous ideas. But there are also too many meaningless moments, shots that add little, dialogues that seem written purely for exposition, and Cate Blanchett who shows little of her class. So I don't regret seeing this film, but it's not essential cinema that shows what it's like to be a son, daughter, father, mother, brother, or sister either.

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