Story 2 is all cuties - Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch review

 

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Jarmusch is working in the mode of a short story teller in the new movie - in the minimalist cinema mode that made him famous in the indie world a very long time ago in the 1980s - so it is not a good idea to cover the stories in detail - let the audiences discover the small stories and the small surprises. In broad strokes - there are 3 stories in the movie. Story 1 has a mystery that is not revealed until the end. Story 2 is all cuties. Story 3 is in the right place - the most substantial story that gets close to real feelings. In this movie Jarmusch is working at near top form. I've seen all of his movies - the new movie is not a work of genius like Mystery Train (probably one of the best American movies of all time), and it's not hilarious like the Brooklyn story in Night On Earth, and it's not a visionary wild man story like Dead Man - this movie is more like a modern version of Stranger Than Paradise - from an older Jarmusch. It's amazing that Jarmusch can still make his movies - so non-Hollywood, so outsider and indie - when many have folded long ago against the never ending commercialization and the difficulty of making movies at a scale that involves movie stars. Jarmusch is the undefeated punk rock Ozu and Satyajit Ray from Ohio. Check out Father Mother Sister Brother to rediscover the glory of minimalist indie cinema. But watch out, like Stranger did to an earlier generation, this movie may make you want to make movies - a challenging calling.