This New Zealand drama’s filming locations were so cold the cameras froze<\/a><\/p>\nStranger Things star Dacre Montgomery froze for his art to appear alongside Phantom Thread’ Vicky Krieps in spooky drama Went Up the Hill.<\/p>\n
The film concludes with a Paris-set segment featuring Pose star Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat, who pops up in Jarmusch’s 2019 zombie satire The Dead Don\u2019t Die, as loving twins rolling through the grief of losing their parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Jarmusch, it’s the messiness of life that’s inherently interesting.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“I was intentionally creating something devoid of all this expected drama, all this plot, violence, conflict and sex,” he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“These people are flawed, as we all are, but I wanted to observe them in an empathetic way.”<\/p>\n
It’s why his daughter will never be in his bad books.<\/p>\n
“I told her recently, ‘If you’re ever in trouble with the authorities or anyone, I am your father and I am on your side,” Jarmusch says. “I will never, never, be angry. I fucked up my life. You fuck up your own life. And she was very happy to hear this. It brought us closer.”<\/p>\n
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Luka Sabbat and Indya Moore round out Father Mother Sister Brother as a pair of grieving twins. (Supplied: Carole Bethuel)<\/p>\n
Jarmusch’s big heart and open mind are why each of the film’s largely unconnected chapters feature slow-motion skateboarding kids amongst other recurring symbols, like the colour red.<\/p>\n
“Skaters represent a kind of freedom,” Jarmusch says. “They live how they want, are often non-binary and anti-authoritarian. I’m very attracted to their spirit. So I liked having them in the film as a kind of respiration.”<\/p>\n
The director lives and breathes ‘vive la difference,’ after all.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been in limousines with movie stars, at fancy fashion parties in Paris, punk rock clubs with vomit-covered floors and I’ve worked in a steel mill,” he smiles. “I like seeing different perspectives.”<\/p>\n
Take the plunge<\/p>\n
Father Mother Sister Brother’s intergenerational perspectives won over the jury at the Venice Film Festival, who awarded it the top prize: the Golden Lion.<\/p>\n
Blanchett, who was there, was overjoyed for Jarmusch.<\/p>\n
“He’s given audiences an exceptional lexicon of human experience that is very particular to himself, but somehow connects him to the universal,” she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He twins melancholy and joy, style and unpretentiousness in such a way that I can’t think of another filmmaker who does that.”<\/p>\n
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The cast of Father Brother Sister Mother, including director Jim Jarmusch (centre) and star Cate Blanchett (second from the right), at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. (Getty: Stefania D’Alessandro)<\/p>\n
Father Mother Sister Brother perfects the form.<\/p>\n
“Watching the film in Venice for the first time in its entirety, the rhythm, the softly spoken jazz Jim was playing with, really affected the audience,” Blanchett says. “So they surrendered to it.”<\/p>\n
She hopes you will, too. “The film’s really gentle and subtle, with a subterranean quality that’s almost imperceptible,” Blanchett says. “If you’re watching it with two or three screens, you might miss that emotional musicality.”<\/p>\n
Blanchett enjoys Jarmusch’s “instinctual, fluid nature in the way that he works”, adding: “With Jim, it’s about showing up and being present. With so much going on in the world, that’s a challenge.”<\/p>\n
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Father Mother Sister Brother marks the sixth collaboration between Jarmusch and musician and actor Tom Waits. (Supplied: Frederick Elmes)<\/p>\n
It’s one Blanchett addresses by regularly plunging into open water before dawn, even in the deepest dark of the UK’s freezing winter.<\/p>\n
“I suppose it’s years and years of work in the film industry, but I get up very early and also go to bed very late,” Blanchett says. “I don’t sleep very much. But not being from this hemisphere, I love getting up and it’s still dark, and if you get into the water then and the birds start to wake up, it’s just glorious.”<\/p>\n
It’s when Blanchett can be fully present.<\/p>\n
“My life is barely controlled chaos,” she says. “I get pulled in a lot of different directions of my own making, doing too much and not doing it particularly well.<\/p>\n
“But when you get into that cold water, you can only be where you are. You can’t plan ahead or think about what happened yesterday. Regrets, hopes and dreams vanish, and so it all closes up.”<\/p>\n
It’s a glorious kind of closure.<\/p>\n
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