The main cast of Jim Jarmusch‘s first film since 2019’s “The Dead Don’t Die” has been revealed, and what a cast it is. Variety reports that Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Jarmusch regular Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore, and Luka Sabbat join Cate Blanchett and Vicky Krieps on “Father Mother Sister Brother.” Jarmusch has already wrapped shooting, with post-production underway in NYC, so expect the film to be ready for a premiere later this year.
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Blanchett let it slip she’d be in Jarmusch’s film in an interview with Le Figaro late last year, but she didn’t mention who she’d star alongside. It’s no surprise Jarmusch’s old friend Waits is on the cast list, but everyone else is a welcome surprise. It’s the first time working with Jarmusch for most of the named listed above, but the third for Driver, who also starred Jarmusch’s 2016 film “Paterson” and “The Dead Don’t Die.” Sabbat was also in Jarmusch’s previous film, the director’s take on the zombie genre that’s also a screed about the travails of contemporary American culture.
Thankfully for that film’s detractors, “Father Mother Sister Brother” is an altogether different Jarmusch project. The globetrotting film, described as “a comedy interwoven with threads of melancholy,” follows a triptych structure centered on adult children, their distant parents, and each other. Jarmusch shot “Father,” in the Northeastern US, “Mother” in Dublin, and “Sister Brother” in Paris. Jarmusch previously described the film as “subtle,” “very quiet,” and “funny and sad,” while also hinting he may choose to have it have no music. “I don’t know if I wanna have music to add some other thing over it,” the director said at the Overlook Film Festival last year, “It doesn’t really want it so far.”
As for producers, Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, and Attila Yücer lead the charge there. Saint Laurent Prods. produces “Father Mother Sister Brother” along with Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello, MUBI, and Fremantle‘s The Apartment. Jarmusch’s Badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema also co-produce, as do Richard Bolger and Conor Barry through Hail Mary. Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland and Cinema Inutile also provided financing.
From the film’s description, “Father Mother Sister Brother” sounds like a quieter Jarmsuch film, something in the vein of “Paterson” or 2008’s “Broken Flowers.” Stay tuned for more news on the film, including its world premiere; maybe at a Fall festival like Venice or TIFF?
