It’s been six years for Jim Jarmusch to follow up on his absurdist zombie flick The Dead Don’t Die with his latest effort.

It’s also been longer since he has produced an anthology film, with his last being 1991’s Night on Earth, with this one focusing on three different families.

The first vignette sees Jeff (Adam Driver) and his sister Emily (Mayim Bialik) driving through a remote part of New Jersey to pay their dad (Tom Waits) a visit.

The second finds a mother (Charlotte Rampling), awaiting the arrival of her two daughters, Timothea (Cate Blanchett) and Lilith (Vicky Krieps), making their ways separately to visit her in Dublin.

And finally twins Billy (Luka Sabbat) and Skye (Indya Moore) meet each other in Paris, to visit the apartment their parents used to live in.

Although set in different parts of the world, their stories are connected by some common threads, such as wardrobe colour, a watch, beverages, skateboarders, and an uncle Bob. And yes, they’re as tentative as they sound.

Jarmusch’s script is low key, and shot fairly lo-fi; the action of the first two mainly take place in one locale, as they all attempt to tackle an awkward dynamic in the room. And although the film has its quirky moments, it’s all a little too dry, especially for a Jarmusch film.

The performances are nice, but nothing more than that. Mainly due to the fact that each story is underwhelming, and the cast really don’t have that much to go on.

Above all, the indie director’s film is...twee, which is just something you don’t expect from him, and on this evidence, isn’t really his cup of tea.

Perhaps it’s an attempt at a slice of life, but possibly in echoing real life too accurately and the ordinariness of families, the result is disappointingly mundane.