Jim Jarmusch's ‘Father, Mother, Sister, Brother’ to Premiere at Cannes

In November 2023, filming quietly began on Jim Jarmusch’s “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.” The cast includes Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling and Mayim Bialik.

The film is being described as a “triptych” following three separate stories set in different countries and revolving around relationships between adults, children, their somewhat distant parents and each other. The first part, “Father,” is set in the east coast in Northeastern U.S., “Mother” in Dublin, and “Sister Brother” in Paris.

Jarmusch is now telling France Inter that the film will premiere at next year’s Cannes Film Festival, or at the very least it’s been submitted. That’s not surprising, Jarmusch has premiered four of his last five films at Cannes, and even opened the fest in 2019 with “The Dead Don’t Die.”

“Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” wrapped production in June, and completed post production in the fall. We’ve had some leaked set photos as well, Blanchett could be seen sporting a conservatively bookish look, while Krieps was all in pink, including her dyed hair.

This is set to be Jarmusch’s first film in over five years. This past April, at the 2023 Overlook Film Festival, he sat down for a conversation concerning the tenth anniversary of his great “Only Lovers Left Alive.”

The film we’re preparing now for late this year to shoot, probably, I think, may have no music […] It’s a very subtle film; it’s very quiet. And I think music could move it too much one way — it’s a funny and sad film, right? It sort of has both woven in. I don’t know if I wanna have music to add some other thing over it. It doesn’t really want it so far.

The Ohio-born filmmaker has been a mainstay of the indie movie scene since the ‘80s. His minimalist, unhurried and idiosyncratic films don’t follow transitional narrative structures, but rather tend to focus more on mood.

Jarmusch’s best films are “Paterson,” “Only Lovers Left Alive,” “Stranger Than Paradise,” “Broken Flowers,” “Down By Law,” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.” However, he has such an eclectic filmography that I’m sure some of his other works will be mentioned in the comments below.