India, Dec. 20 -- Jim Jarmusch's latest film is charming and might initially seem too simple for its own good, but it has a lovely wisdom that lingers. Right from the rather strange title, the film arrives with a typically wry sense of humour. It is a triptych, all revolving around the inevitability of family. We all come from parents, and we all have some family, and our own complicated relationships around it. Jarmusch's sombre and delicate film explores three such family histories, offering to dissect the ways in which we communicate and choose to avoid those we are closest to.

The first of these stories is the funniest and most touching. Adam Driver and Mayim Biyalik play siblings, Jeff and Emily. They are driving to the isolated cab...