Film tips week 16
Kosmorama recommends quality films for the week. You can catch these titles either on the big screen or on various streaming services!
Father Mother Sister Brother
Where: Trondheim kino
If you missed this at Kosmorama 2026, fear not, here's your chance to catch it on the big screen yet again!
Visionary director Jim Jarmusch returns with Father Mother Sister Brother, a distinctive and multifaceted anthology film exploring intricate family relationships. The film follows three families in the United States, Dublin, and Paris, as siblings reunite with one another or with their parents.
Featuring a star-studded cast including Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits, the film invites us into quiet moments of intimacy, identity, and belonging. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, it offers a meditative cinematic experience that balances humor and melancholy in true Jarmusch fashion.
Jarmusch’s films have always followed their own rhythm, shaped by music, poetry, and a deep appreciation for silence. From Stranger Than Paradise (1984) to Paterson (2016), he has explored the outsider’s perspective—and with Father Mother Sister Brother, he turns his gaze inward, toward the enigmatic landscape of family.
© Another World Entertainment
In the mood for love
Where: Cinemateket Trondheim
Longing permeates In the Mood for Love, where resolution lies in small gestures and in the dream of what was—or what might have been. Wong Kar-wai’s mood-driven period drama expresses nostalgia on multiple levels: through the portrayal of the tender love story as a fragmented memory, but also in its meticulous recreation of 1960s Hong Kong. The period-accurate costumes and production design play a crucial role in Wong’s sensual melodrama.
The story of In the Mood for Love is set in Hong Kong, 1962. Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen meet while moving in, as they coincidentally settle into the same apartment complex with their respective spouses. Despite the building being full of families and people, an aura of loneliness surrounds them both, as each discovers they are being betrayed. Yet their shared fate gradually becomes more than mere consolation, and an intense attraction develops between them. Torn between their feelings on one side and the need not to become like their unfaithful partners on the other, they struggle to preserve both their own honor and that of each other. This struggle forms the central tension of the film.
The unspoken desire is heightened by the music, including instrumental passages associated with Nat King Cole, which recur throughout the film and provide a thematic thread. In collaboration with his regular cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Wong Kar-wai follows the couple in slow motion as they pass each other in narrow stairwells, talk about the weather in dimly lit streets, and secretly rehearse conversations as if they were real lovers. Warm colors strongly shape a story in which distance carries as much weight as attraction, filling the space between them with shades of black and red, often accompanied by cigarette smoke that slowly rises before dissipating.
© Janus Films
The Eight Mountains
Where: Streaming
Pietro is a quiet and shy city boy, while Bruno grows up in a mountain village in the Alps. Pietro and his parents find their way there every summer, and the two boys form a very special friendship. A friendship of few words, in harmony with nature.
Pietro and Bruno become teenagers, and then adults, and the mountains are what shape them, what hold them together - and tear them apart.
The Eight Mountains is a film about the meaning of life, a lifelong friendship and their strong bond with nature and the mountains. About the opportunity to seek and find one's place in the world. A story about a person who is satisfied with the simple things in life and who has found the recipe for happiness.
© Selmer Media
