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Paterson

2016

Jim Jarmusch

Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Sterling Jerins, Luis Da Silva Jr. ...

6.8

15,303

Drama Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey - they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"This moving portrait of a bus driver (...) contains the actor's finest performance (...) Jarmusch [is] a filmmaker who continues to surprise and innovate while remaining true to his singular voice, and who here seems to have delivered its purest manifestation."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is a delight: a prose-poem of gentle comic humility and acceptance of life. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"Adam Driver's Paterson will be treasured for years (...) It’s truly special – a breath-catching lesson in aloneness, but one that’s fond of good company, too. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"In 'Paterson' the appeal of the Jarmusch vision shrinks down - in every way - to something relatively minimal."
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"The director has made a wonderful film about the practical, the intuitive, the homespun (...) His ode to small pleasures and the simple life comes in the form of a simple film that is a small pleasure."
		Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"An unfeasibly charming film full of little wisdoms and quiet comforts where we might expect to find provocations, its only deception is that it is so much richer than it seems at first glance."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A mild-mannered, almost startlingly undramatic work that offers discreet pleasures to longtime fans of the New York indie-scene veteran, who can always be counted on to go his own way."

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