Jim Jarmusch just wants to make films for the sake of cinema. Jarmusch’s latest collaborator, actress Vicky Krieps, couldn’t help but applaud the indie filmmaker’s nonconformist vision during the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Krieps will next star in Jarmusch’s ensemble “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” alongside Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, and Charlotte Rampling.
“What I really, really love about [Jarmusch] is that he is still just making a movie. He’s not trying to make the next Jim Jarmusch. He’s not trying to go to Cannes,” Krieps said, as reported by THR. “He’s really trying to figure out how to make the movie on set, like a student would make a movie. And that is very, very beautiful.”
Jarmusch certainly has had his fair share of experiences at Cannes, winning the Camera d’Or for his first feature “Stranger Than Paradise” and appearing there for multiple other movies including “Mystery Train,” “Dead Man,” “Broken Flowers,” “Paterson,” and the 2019 opening night film “The Dead Don’t Die.”
As for working on “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” specifically, Krieps added, “That’s very loving, so it was a very loving set, very careful set. Working with Cate Blanchett and Charlotte Rampling was a gift, and we just had so much fun. We were laughing.”
“Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” is Jarmusch’s first film since “The Dead Don’t Die,” which also starred Driver. The feature is described as an anthology film following three separate stories centered on strained relationships between adult children and their parents. Each of the trio of plotlines take place in different countries: “Father” is set in the Northeast U.S., “Mother” takes place in Dublin, Ireland, and “Sister Brother” is based in Paris, France. “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” is a “series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental. A comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy,” the synopsis continues.
And despite Krieps saying that Jarmusch didn’t set out to make a feature for buzzy festivals, “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” will indeed premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the main competition, as distributor MUBI recently announced.
Meanwhile, Krieps may be making her own debut behind the camera. The “Phantom Thread” star said that she would “love to” stop working as an actress and explore screenwriting. “I would like to take a break and then maybe write a script or something. I have all this in me,” she said. “I just need the time and the possibility.”