Movie Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s starry ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ families struggle to connect
Jim Jarmusch invites audiences into three family gatherings of adult children in his gentle tryptic “Father Mother Sister Brother.” Movie Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s starry ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ families struggle to connect Don’t worry, you won’t be resentful you’re not part of any of them, not even the one where Tom Waits plays Adam Driver’s dad. To be fair, all the groupings are pretty cool on paper. In the first chapter, siblings Jeff and Emily drive together to visit their father for the first time in a while. In the second, a mother awaits her grown daughters Tim and Lilith for their annual tea. And in the third, all that’s left of Skye and Billy’s parents are things. But these are awkward and strained hangouts, none connected to one another literally, and all in different parts of the world. Yet there are little threads throughout — Rolex watches, toasting with water, red clothing, and the idiom “bob’s your uncle,” for instance. And then there’s the more cosmically haunting realization that familiarity and closeness are …
