Jim Jarmusch Wraps Surprise Film With Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and More
Details on Jim Jarmusch‘s surprise new film project have finally been revealed, and it’s a family affair.
Paparazzi photos from the set made the rounds in January, showing Cate Blanchett filming an outdoor scene with Vicky Krieps (in a pink wig) but little was known about the project at the time as Jarmusch tends to keep things closely guarded. However, on Thursday in Cannes the Match Factory confirmed that it had boarded the project and will handle international sales during the film festival while Jarmusch completes postproduction back in New York.
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The film is titled Father Mother Sister Brother and features some of his trusted collaborators. The cast includes Blanchett, Krieps, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat. Per official intel received by The Hollywood Reporter, Father Mother Sister Brother is described as “a feature film in the form of a triptych.”
The official description: “Three separate stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three parts takes place in the present, and each in a different country. Father is set in the Northeast U.S., 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.”
Filming took place in Paris following shoots in Dublin and in the northeastern United States. The film is expected to be finished later this year. Producers include Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan and Atilla Salih Yücer. The film is produced and presented by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, MUBI and The Apartment (a Fremantle company) with Jarmusch’s Badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema. In Ireland, Richard Bolger and Conor Barry at Hail Mary Pictures co-produced with financing provided by Fís éireann and Screen Ireland. Cinema Inutile delivered equity finance.
Presales have already been negotiated with Weltkino in Germany and Les Films du Losanges in France. The Match Factory will handle international sales and Gersh will handle North American rights.
Vaccarello and Saint Laurent are becoming something of a force in the indie film space following the launch of Saint Laurent Prods., which has three films in the Cannes Film Festival competition this year, including The Shrouds, Parthenope and Emilia Perez.
Jarmusch is repped by Bart Walker at Gersh and Victoria Cook and Hayden Goldblatt at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz. Jarmusch previously worked with Driver on Paterson and The Dead Don’t Die, which also cast Sabbat in a supporting role. Blanchett starred in Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes. News of the cast was first reported by Variety.
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