#FIRSTLOOK: MUBI ACQUIRES JIM JARMUSCH’S “FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER”

MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, has acquired Father Mother Sister Brother, the enchanting new film from legendary director Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, Paterson, Only Lovers Left Alive) ahead of its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Competition.

MUBI has acquired all rights in North America, Latin America, UK, Ireland, Benelux*, Turkey and India, and is pleased to reveal the first-look images of the film, available here. MUBI’s release plans will be announced soon. Cinéart will release the film in Benelux in collaboration with MUBI.

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, the film stars Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun.

The Match Factory is handling international sales. Gersh represented the North American rights.

Father Mother Sister Brother was produced by Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan and Atilla Salih Yücer. The film is presented by MUBI, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and The Apartment (a Fremantle Company), in association with Jarmusch’s badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema, Cinema Inutile, Films du Losange and Weltkino. In Ireland Hail Mary Pictures co-produced and finance was provided by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. Lenders were Cofiloisirs and Three Point Capital.

Directors of Photography on the film are Frederick Elmes (The Dead Don’t Die, Paterson) and Yorick Le Saux (Only Lovers Left Alive, Personal Shopper). Production Designers are Mark Friedberg (Joker, Paterson) and Marco Bittner-Rosser (Only Lovers Left Alive, Tár), Editing was led by Affonso Gonçalves (I’m Still Here, Paterson), Costume Design was by Catherine George (Mickey 17, We Need To Talk About Kevin) , Sound Design is from Robert Hein (The Dead Don’t Die, Ad Astra) and Casting was by Ellen Lewis (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Dead Don’t Die). Music is by Jim Jarmusch and Anika.

Jim Jarmusch is represented by Bart Walker of The Gersh Agency and Victoria Cook and Hayden Goldblatt at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz.

SYNOPSIS
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.

FATHER is set in the Northeast US, MOTHER in Dublin, Ireland, and SISTER BROTHER in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental –a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy

DIRECTOR STATEMENT
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a kind of anti-action film, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate – almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. Collaborations with the masterful cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves and other frequent collaborators elevate what started as words on a page into a form of pure cinema.