If Béla Tarr made Abigail’s Party if might look something like this, an elevated cringe comedy that marks a return, of sorts, to the kind of portmanteau movie Jim Jarmusch made in the late ’80s and early ’90s. The theme is very simple — family — but there are other overlaps too, with jokes that recur, like various iterations of the British phrase “Bob’s your uncle”, which clearly tickled Jarmusch somewhere on his travels. It’s slight for sure, and true to his word in Cannes 2023 it does make his last film, Paterson , look like a Jean Claude Van Damme action film, but it’s good to see that he’s moved away from his not very productive period spent fruitlessly trying to re-energize stale horror tropes.

True to form, Father Mother Sister Brother brings together an extraordinarily

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