NYFF Review: Family Sure is a Funny Thing in Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother'

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One never expects to reference a Saturday Night Live skit when reviewing a film by indie iconoclast filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. And yet the Night on Earth and Only Lovers Left Alive writer-director’s latest, titled Father Mother Sister Brother , owes as much to those 90s SNL skits about a dysfunctional family having dinner that always ended with Will Ferrell bellowing “I drive a Dodge Stratus!” as it does to any arty esoteric tricks Jarmusch might pull from his distressed Saint Laurent sleeves.

And it’s all the better for it. Easily his best film since Broken Flowers , this is a sly and sweet rumination on the unfamiliarity of family—the aw

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