Winner of the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Father Mother Sister Brother is a perceptive study in familial dynamics, a feature film carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three chapters all concern the relationships between adult children reconnecting or coming to terms with aging or lost parents, which take place in the present, and each in a different country. Siblings Jeff and Emily check up on their hermetic father in rural New Jersey; sisters Lilith and Timothea reunite with their guarded novelist mother in Dublin; and twins Skye and Billy return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Starring Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, and Tom Waits, the film is a series of character studies: quiet, subtle, non-judgmental – a comedy interwoven with threads of melancholy.
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