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"FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER" - Magical Realist - Mar 27, 2026
Beautiful and heartful triptych of family relationships artfully interwoven with common motifs and themes. Reminiscent of other Jarmusch gems "Night On Earth" and "Coffee And Cigarettes". Highly recommend..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsy9sBw-VGE
"There’s a spiritual strain running through all of Jarmusch’s work—part theology and part quantum physics, with shades of lamentation for humanity’s limits and affection for their delusions and foibles. All that is present here as well. The movie is not trying to give advice or make a statement. Still, something about the approach makes it feel as if hidden knowledge is being transmitted, and that you can connect to it or learn from it if you stay tuned to the movie’s wavelength....
..What’s it all about? What’s the conclusion? What’s the takeaway? Jarmusch never hands us anything. We’re left to think about all of it, how it might or might not fit together, and how we relate to it. The constant through all of Jarmusch’s work is an attentiveness to narrative and visual storytelling that most other filmmakers avoid or just never include. It’s unsettling, in a way—as if the normal experience of moviegoing has been turned inside-out. You may be left cold, feeling that you’ve seen a theoretical exercise whose purpose was never articulated. Or you may react as I did. I took pages of notes for this review, doing my best to describe the movie as a discrete work—an object to be contemplated. When the final credits rolled, I closed my notebook and wept."------ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/father-mother-sister-brother-adam-driver-cate-blanchett-movie-review-2025