𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝’𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐋𝐚 𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Film: “Father mother sister brother”
Venezia 82 Competition
| Director: | Jim Jarmusch |
| Production: | badjetlag (Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, Atilla Salih Yücer), CG Cinema (Charles Gillibert), Hail Mary Pictures (Richard Bolger) |
| Running Time: | 110’ |
| Language: | English, French |
| Country: | USA, Ireland, France |
| Main Cast: | Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun |
| Screenplay: | Jim Jarmusch |
| Cinematographer: | Frederick Elmes, Yorick Le Saux |
| Editor: | Affonso Gonçalves |
| Production Designer: | Mark Friedberg, Marco Bittner Rosser |
| Costume Designer: | Catherine George |
| Music: | Jim Jarmusch, Anika |
| Sound: | Robert Hein |
| Artistic creator: | Anthony Vaccarello |
Synopsis. 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.
Director’s Statement. Mother Sister Brother is a kind of anti-action film, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate — almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. Collaborations with the masterful cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves, and other frequent collaborators elevate what started as words on a page into a form of pure cinema.
