Jim Jarmusch’s Film To Be the Centerpiece of the New York Film Festival
Father Mother Sister Brother, directed by Jim Jarmusch, is slated to be the Centerpiece of the 63rd annual New York Film Festival.
Jim Jarmusch is an incomparable filmmaker and his latest offering, Father Mother Sister Brother, will be shown at the Venice Film Festival followed by its North American debut as the Centerpiece selection of the New York Film Festival. Jarmusch’s latest has an all-star cast of great actors which includes Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Waits, Mayim Bialik and Indya Moore. This multi-layered set of complicated family stories is expected to be one of Jarmusch’s most mature films in his very distinguished career resume of quirky and intelligent movies.
Alice Tully Hall will be the venue where the new Jarmusch film from Mubi will debut in New York City. This North America premiere screening will be on October 3rd. This new movie will be a character study of grown children and their parents and the way in which they connect, for better or worse. It will be set in different countries during modern times. The always intriguing Tom Waits (Licorice Pizza) will serve as the father of Driver and Bialik’s characters in one section of the new movie set in New Jersey in the USA. Paris and Dublin are the other locations the two remaining featured tales will set themselves in. Blanchett and Krieps will play in the section set in Dublin.
Last year’s The Room Next Door was the Centerpiece selection for the 62nd New York Film Festival. That movie was exquisite, but, surprisingly, didn’t yield Oscar nods for its deserving stars, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, possibly due to both of their placements in the leading category in the awards race. This year, Father Mother Sister Brother features stars who usually do work of awards-caliber and all the stars may be eligible in the supporting category given the structure of the movie which makes me hopeful that the stars will be great in their turns here. Particularly intriguing is the presence of Blanchett, Krieps and Rampling in the cast, all of whom are due for Oscar nods. Blanchett’s name is almost always drawn as a potential nominee whenever it appears in a movie.
Jarmusch (Night on Earth)’s films are usually intimate and character-driven. The filmmaker’s brilliant 2005 effort, Broken Flowers, starred Bill Murray in one of the best and most subtle performances of the actor’s career. Jarmusch is an author, artist and musician as well as a filmmaker and the talented director of Father Mother Sister Brother could have his most profound movie yet with this latest effort which is sure to be one of the most interesting of the films showing at the New York Film Festival this year. Jarmusch deserved an Oscar nomination for directing Broken Flowers and just may get a long-awaited nod this year if his new film plays as well as it is expected to.
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