Familial relations are idiosyncratic and complicated, frequently defined by manipulations, deceptions, projections, and performances, and they’re plumbed for both comedy and bittersweet drama in Father Mother Sister Brother.

Winner of the top prize (the Golden Lion) at this year’s Venice Film Festival, and screening as the Centerpiece selection of the New York Film Festival ahead of its Dec. 24 theatrical debut, Jim Jarmusch’s latest is a subdued triptych about siblings coping with parents from whom they are, in some form or another, estranged. Buoyed by a superb cast headlined by Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett, it’s a film of quiet, droll grace, even if its delicateness occasionally veers into slightness.

Divided into three chapters, each of them preceded by avant-garde swirls of light

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