‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver Confirmed for Venice Competition
The official Venice Festival lineup is some weeks from being announced, but one film looks set to be included.
Jim Jarmusch’s new feature Father Mother Sister Brother will screen in competition on the Lido, according to Efe Cakarel, the CEO of the film’s co-producer Mubi.
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“That’s already confirmed,” he told a crowd at SXSW London, where he was giving a keynote speech on Friday.
“Father Mother Sister Brother” — which shot last year — stars Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.
The film is a triptych, following three separate stories set in different countries and revolving around relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parents and each other.
The first part, “Father,” is set in the east coast in Northeastern U.S., “Mother” is in Dublin, Ireland, and “Sister Brother” is in Paris, France.
Jarmusch has brought films to Venice before, but not in years, premiering “Only Lovers Left Alive” at the festival in 2013, and “Coffee & Cigarettes” there in 2003.
Producers on “Father Mother Sister Brother” are Charles Gillibert (“Annette”), Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan and Atilla Salih Yücer. The film is produced and presented by Saint Laurent Prods., headed by the fashion house’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello, Mubi and the Apartment (a Fremantle company) together with Jarmusch’s Badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema. Ireland’s Richard Bolger and Conor Barry of Hail Mary co-produced. The film was also backed by Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland and received equity financing from Cinema Inutile.
