Father Mother Sister Brother is a new Jim Jarmusch film that’s very much more the Paterson Jarmusch than the Dead Man Jarmusch; retroactively introspective, a multi-narrative chronicle that tells the story of multiple families in different walks of life navigating emotionally distant parents and the situations that they find themselves in.
There are overlaps, of course. Always overlaps. In the first story, an estranged sibling pair Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik go to visit Tom Waits’ reclusive Father in the remote wilderness outside New York City. But Father is hiding something from them – posh cars, a sinister edge – his ramshackle house isn’t as ramshackle as it first appears. The meeting is tense and awkward; between the well-off sibling pair and Father – and the two leave after a shor