THEthe opposite of an action film. In Father Mother Sister Brother Nothing happens. The plot of 3 episodes in which Jim Jarmusch’s latest film is divided It could be summarized in a row. Yet everything happens.
In Father Two children, Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik, visit the father (Tom Waits, Magnificent) who lives in an isolated house in the American Northeast. There are many embarrassed silences. THE SON – We learned it during the car trip along the deserted road (Salvo the appearance of 3 skaters, who will always return to the ralers, also in the other two episodes) in the snowy landscape – they worry about the health of the father. Above all, the son, who over time has rescued his father financially when he found himself in difficulty.
Among them, perhaps there is still a residue of an ancient affection, but now It has remained little more than the conveniences, The offer of a glass of water, of a tea, the observation that everyone has something red in clothing. Attention is understood in the gift of A box of food that the son brings to the fatherin the concern about the health of the parent by the daughter (who translates into the comic response of Waits with the list of substances that “does not be assuming).
You laugh a lot, Waits is irresistible, and you are a little squeezed for the elderly parent. Ready to change, but we will not say more. Each environment – also The living room of the bourgeois house of Charlotte Rampling in Dublin of Mother And the Parisian apartment emptied of the furniture and memories of the twins protagonists of the third episode – is a theater.
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A film written in 3 weeks
There are shooting from above that enhance the aesthetics of a table covered with pastries and canapy, many shots in the car (And the choice of models speaks volumes, from the hybrid of Adam Driver, to the utility car without too much character that leaves Cate Blanchett in cream, by the vintage machine that could have belonged to the parents who are no more than the third episode), Several recurring elements: The toasts made with little acconce (water, tea, coffee), an expression “and bob is you unacle”, which everyone sooner or later pronounces and that will put the translators in difficulty (it is a British idiomatic expression which means that something has been successfully completed).
Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett in Mother.
For Jarmush who declares to “always write fast” and to have “developed the triptych in three weeks”, the structure with its geometries It is at least as important as The incredible cast that he managed to bring together around his project produced by Anthony Vaccarello of Saint Laurent (all adoring at the press conference, all called to answer the question “But how do you, Jim …?” And various theories have been advanced).
“I would not like a chapter to be shown without the other two,” said the director of Stranger Than Paradise. For Indya Moore, protagonist together with Luka Sabbat di Sister Brotherwho closes the film leaving the viewer, bewitched by the “flow of consciousness” Jarmuschiano (words of Cate Blanchett, a circled daughter of a – we sensed terrible – Charlotte Rampling) with a vague melancholy, is not wrong when he claims that Jarmush knows how to tell “the magnificence of ordinary people”.