A few days ago, I watched Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother. It displays three at first sight unrelated stories that however share a few common themes—parents and sons' relationships alongside with the relation of siblings with each other, and the role of family memories. With its slow-paced and smooth narrative, this latest Jarmusch movie gives away some unspoken insights about family and human relations. From episode to episode, your views about family are likely to shift, from 'trap' (basically) to 'burden' (kind of), and finally to 'lost paradise', along a scale that seems to go full way from cynicism to nostalgia. Although I value that the characters are fairly treated and they feel human, unlike what's the case in many pictures nowadays, I have to admit this one left me somewhat cold.
Thanks for sharing, eugen_blick. I hope to see this film some day.
It was awarded the Golden Lion in Venice. I think it's worth a watch.
Thank you, SEQ and Tim!
title: Father Mother Sister Brother || The original title is a little drab — it sounds like a third-grader writing a report for class. I think the true subject of this post is the movie itself 😉 Also, film is an industry word in American English — you only hear it used by the movie industry and the people who work in it. The rest of us call it a movie. I don't know if you favor British or American English.
I think it's a good example of Jarmusch's style, as far as I remember. Night on Earth was very similar, for instance, I think. I guess I liked Paterson, though
I didn't know this about film/movie. Sometimes I sound British, sometimes American... The fate of the gaucho lol
Here the three stories are linked thematically, but there are also some punctual motifs that keep showing up in all of them: (three? slow-motion) skaters the characters come across and get annoyed by during their car trips, toasting with water, and some idioms, like "Bob's your uncle". I find it as rather professional autheurist stuff, but it works somehow