Not to put too fine a point on it, but Jim Jarmusch is one of the coolest filmmakers alive. It’s not just the windswept silver swirls of his iconic locks, or the way he’ll cameo as himself on New York-set comedy series like Bored to Death and What We Do in Shadows. It’s also that he makes movies with impeccable casts that dare to linger in love, longing, and loss, like Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, The Dead Don’t Die, and Only Lovers Left Alive. So, as soon as Jarmusch revealed his latest film’s title, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, we’ve been champing at the bit to see who’d play what eponymous role.
MUBI, the distributor behind The Substance, reveals who’s who in this first teaser, which features Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun.
However, the teaser doesn’t give a full sense of what Jarmusch has mapped out in this movie. For that, we present the film’s official plot 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 Northeast U.S., MOTHER in Dublin, Ireland, and SISTER BROTHER in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental — a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.
Eager to see more? Well, this weekend we’ll get the first reactions to FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, as it makes its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on Aug. 31. However, Mashable will review the film this fall out of its North American premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival. But fret not; even if you’re not able to fly to Venice or New York, you can see Jarmusch and company’s latest this winter.
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER will open in theaters in the U.S. on Dec. 24.
