"We meet Jim Jarmusch on Venice's grand canal, in a 15th-century gothic palazzo - all chandeliers, marble floors and the ghosts of past guests who ranged from Proust to Verdi. It's the kind of bewitched location the erudite, centuries-old vampires in the filmmaker's Only Lovers Left Alive might appreciate, with the exception of the Italian sunshine, glinting off green lagoon waters outside."
"in shades and in black, aside from the tiny gold stickpin mouse on his lapel, and a polkadot patterned notebook in his hands. "I wrote some things in here half asleep..." he explains, "a song called New York Jesus, about Lou Reed." He writes all his scripts by hand too, in notebooks stashed around his home in the Catskills, and his films feel similarly handmade - closer to paintings, or perhaps the poetry he studied as a student under Kenneth Koch at Columbia."
Jim Jarmusch attended the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of Father Mother Sister Brother in a 15th-century Gothic palazzo. The film is a quietly paced triptych that examines the complex interplay between parents and their adult children. The work intentionally avoids conventional cinematic drama, lacking violence, sex, nudity, or an overt agenda. Jarmusch adopts a Johnny Cash–like wardrobe and keeps a polka-dot notebook, writing songs and scripts by hand in notebooks around his Catskills home. His films are handmade in approach—akin to paintings or the poetry he studied under Kenneth Koch—and prioritize small, in-between moments and everyday details.
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