FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
Type: intimate-psychological portrait
Direction: Jim Jarmusch. With Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Charlotte Rampling, Adam Driver. Tom Waits, Maym Bialik, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat
It is an “anti-action film”. The director said it and the definition couldn’t be more correct, considering that the three episodes that compose it take place almost entirely around a table or sitting on the floor, playing with memories and expectations.
In the first, set in the American province, there are a son and a daughter who visit their father, a Tom Waits who is now an icon of Jarmusch’s cinema: they are worried about his survival, but perhaps the parent is hiding secret resources.
Charlotte Rampling in the film “Father Mother Sister Brother”, winner of the Golden Lion (© Yorick Le Saux / Vague Notion).
In the second we move in Ireland, where the two daughters fulfill the commitment that takes them to tea with their writer mother every yeareach committed to hiding a part of itself and magnifying another.
We are in the third episode in Paris and twins visit their recently deceased parents’ apartment for the last time in a plane crash.
Enlivened by a perfect cast (with a special mention for the “Irish” Cate Blanchet, Vicky Krieps and Charlotte Rampling), three excavations in the human desolation behind which one hideswhich the director distills with his already proverbial minimalism, awarded the Golden Lion in Venice.
For those who want to tiptoe around familiar pretenses.
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