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Directed by Jim Jarmusch
2016, USA, 118 min
Adam Driver is a bus driver and poet named Paterson living and working in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, which was home to the poet William Carlos Williams, whose most famous poem is titled Paterson. Jim Jarmusch is in top form with this wonderfully funny and warm meditation on the quotidian details of one loving couple’s (extra)ordinary life together. The film, gorgeously shot by Frederick Elmes (Eraserhead and Blue Velvet) and perfectly played by Driver and Iranian star Golshifteh Farahani as the couple inquestion, is also a quietly stirring homage to the affirmative power of art. Jarmusch weaves a tapestry of honest, hopeful small-town life that is rich in comic detail and real emotion. (VIFF)
