Directed by:
Jim JarmuschScreenplay:
Jim JarmuschCinematography:
Frederick ElmesCast:
Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Barry Shabaka Henley, William Jackson Harper, Chasten Harmon, Kara Hayward, Sterling Jerins, Luis Da Silva Jr. (more)Plots(1)
Paterson is a bus driver and part time aficionado poet. Each day he keeps a simple routine: he drives his bus, walks his dog, goes to a bar and drinks a beer. His only daily engagement is with writing poems, while living a beautiful love story with his partner. The most recent movie by Jim Jarmusch is developed in the course of a week and pays homage to the poet William Carlos Williams. It is about a celebration of the quiet triumphs and loses of the daily life, that finds poetry in the little things. (Interior XIII)
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Now you will finally see me for what I am! I'm clearly not smart enough to appreciate Paterson. I just don’t find it interesting to watch the day-to-day life of a bus driver with poetic inclinations and his extremely creative wife. I was so supremely bored that I almost nodded off twice, but I fought it until the bitter end. I thought I'd give Jim Jarmusch a call. His next movie could be about me. It would surely be just as boring, maybe even more so, which would certainly kick it up a notch in terms of quality. The bus breaking down sure gave the story a new edge and brought an incredible amount of suspense. Ugh…
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During the premiere, I had the urge to visit the movie theater and alleviate the withdrawal symptoms of my addiction to good films. Paterson seemed like a solid opportunity, given the enthusiastic reviews of others. However, my previous encounter with Jarmusch's vampire lovers ended in significant disappointment, and those who sing odes to Paterson were similarly enthralled by Only Lovers Left Alive. I enjoyed Jarmusch in the 90s when titles like Dead Man or Night on Earth represented a small film festival for me, and I didn't hesitate to visit the movie theater because of them. Since Coffee and Cigarettes, his melancholic poetry, minimalism, and fascination with stereotype and banality began to gnaw at me a bit, and step by step, I began to lose interest. Paterson confirmed to me that our breakup was final. What others find charming, I find tiresome. I honestly can't appreciate the film's mood and Jarmusch no longer has any surprises for me. The only thing left is to see how his 90s works, which I loved so much, will affect me upon repeated viewing. Overall impression: 40%.
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The poetic story of Paterson's Petrarch, or Sometimes the blank page holds the most possibilities. I was really looking forward to Jim Jarmusch's new film and I didn't know much more about it than that the main character drives a bus. I would recommend the same to everyone... But actually, why? It's clear to me that whenever I see Paterson again, I'll enjoy it just as much, even though I'll know what's in store for me. There's a lot of power in all that simplicity. And Jim Jarmusch once again won with it so much that it is simply impossible not to suspect that he chose Adam Driver for the role of the chauffeur mainly on the basis of his surname. "Aha!"
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Simply a beautiful film about how nice and how sad it is sometimes to be human. Jim Jarmusch doesn't play on unnecessarily heightened emotions, whether positive or negative, but rather on those that can resonate with us, ones we can experience similarly to the great Adam Driver, whom hopefully we'll see more often in similar roles.
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Far from real poetry. Nice, predictable and pleasant prose, in which a fan of Jarmusch will read nothing new and refreshing between the lines. Familiar Zen aquarium. I felt good in it, but nothing more, nothing deep... [Cannes 20016] Edit: I got used to Jarmusch's good films resonating with me for many months. There was nothing left of Paterson. No emotion, no scene, no desire to return to Paterson. He has no chance of surviving in Jim's garden of paintings and verses.
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