Beauty is often found in the smallest details.
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20257/10
On the face of it, there is nothing remarkable about this eponymous bus driver who might have been named after his town. He (Adam Driver) shares his home with wife “Laura” (Golshifteh Farahani) and their’s is an happy marriage. Each morning, he heads to his depot where he has the usual chat with his glass-half-empty colleague “Donny” (Rizwan Manji) before setting off driving route 23. She has prepared his sandwich for lunch and that sustains him until he returns home at the end of the working day for some chat, some telly, maybe the occasional movie and then finally taking her dog for it’s final constitutional of the day - and nipping into the pub for a swift half en route. Fortunately for him, and us, there are other influences on his day and these are frequently the cause of some consternation, or entertainment, as his pals routinely row in the boozer, or his passengers ramble on within earshot or even when his bus breaks down. All of this provides his vivid imagination with the fodder for poetry. Not the stuff of rhyming couplets or limericks, but more the sort of poetic still-life stories that Emily Dickinson or William Carlos Williams might have conjured from their imagination
Read the whole review on TMDB - Peter McGinnon TMDB · Sep 202110/10
I will go out a limb here (and try not to cut the branch out from under myself) and say that I feel this is nearly a perfect movie. Oh, I don’t mean that it is one of the best of all time, or even that it makes my own top ten list. But rarely does a film live up so well to what it strives to accomplish. It is a quiet and gentle movie, full of love in nearly every scene. The two leads have great chemistry together. Laura almost comes across as a ditzy character, but the more time I spent with her, the more she seemed merely quirky, artistic and wise in small ways that matter in life. She is optimistic and confident in her marriage, so I feared something would come along to threaten or damage that confidence. But that is not what this movie is about. Paterson could easily be a date night movie, or a “It has been a long day” movie to help you unwind. Heck, there is no violence, explicit language or sex, so you could watch it with kids and talk about some of the stuff that happens. (Not too young though; it might be too slow for real young’uns.) There is mild (and again, gentle) humor here, like from the scene-stealing dog Marvin, played by Nellie! When I went back to school in my 30s,
Read the whole review on TMDB - CRCulveron TMDB · Jul 20186/10
Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film PATERSON is a study of everyday life in a small American city. Its title refers on one hand to its setting of Paterson, New Jersey, much less known abroad than other towns in the state but a surprising number of prominent Americans hailed from there and it was eulogized in an epic-length work by the poet William Carlos Williams. On the other hand, Paterson is coincidentally the last name of our protagonist, a thirty-something bus driver played by Adam Driver. The film is a day-by-day account of one week in Paterson's life and in fact each day is rather the same: Paterson wakes up, kisses his wife (played by Golshifteh Farahani), goes to work driving the bus, comes home, eats dinner with his wife, takes the dog for a walk, and has a beer at the local bar. Yet Paterson also has an unusual hobby: for some time he has written poetry during each day's lunch break, and he has filled a small notebook with poems that his wife calls wonderful, but which he has never shown to anyone else. There is a plot to Paterson, that is, an increasing of tension and a sudden and jarring climax, but overall Jarmusch is not aiming for any grand and intricate storytelling here. Ins
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Cast
- Adam DriverPaterson
- Golshifteh FarahaniLaura
- Rizwan ManjiDonny
- Barry Shabaka HenleyDoc
- William Jackson HarperEverett
- Chasten HarmonMarie
- Method ManMethod Man
- Dominic LirianoBoy on Bus 1
- Jaden MichaelBoy on Bus 2
- Trevor ParhamSam
Crew
- Jim JarmuschDirector
- Jim JarmuschWriter
- Frederick ElmesDirector of Photography
- Jim JarmuschOriginal Music Composer
- Carter LoganOriginal Music Composer
- Affonso GonçalvesEditor
- Joshua AstrachanProducer
- Carter LoganProducer
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