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Title: Paterson (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Adam Driver | ... | Paterson | |
| Golshifteh Farahani | ... | Laura | |
| Nellie | ... | Marvin | |
| Rizwan Manji | ... | Donny | |
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Dominic Liriano | ... | Boy on Bus 1 |
| Jaden Michael | ... | Boy on Bus 2 | |
| Barry Shabaka Henley | ... | Doc | |
| Trev Parham | ... | Sam (as Trevor Parham) | |
| Troy T. Parham | ... | Dave (as Troy Parham) | |
| Brian McCarthy | ... | Jimmy | |
| Frank Harts | ... | Luis | |
| Luis Da Silva Jr. | ... | Blood in Convertible | |
| Chasten Harmon | ... | Marie | |
| William Jackson Harper | ... | Everett | |
| Method Man | ... | Method Man (as Cliff Smith) | |
Exactly one week in the life of a young man named Paterson of Paterson, New Jersey is presented. He lives an extremely regimented and routinized life, that routine perhaps most vividly displayed by the fact that he is able to wake up at exactly the same time every day without an alarm. That life includes eating Cheerios for breakfast, walking to work carrying his brown bag lunch packed in his lunch pail by his wife Laura, having a casual chat with his colleague Donny before he begins his shift driving the #23 Paterson bus for the local public transit company, walking home where he straightens out the exterior mailbox which somehow during the day gets knocked crooked, eating dinner with Laura and listening to her goings-on of the day, taking Laura's English bulldog Marvin - who he would admit to himself he doesn't much like - out for a walk to his neighborhood bar where he has one and only one beer before walking home with Marvin. There are day to day variations which are often the ... Written by Huggo
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Paterson is a celebration of the small details in life. A poetic and charming love-story about a perfectly ordinary couple, living in a perfectly ordinary town.
The town in question is Paterson, New Jersey. Home of poet William Carlos Williams, comedian Lou Costello, and one of America's largest waterfalls. The man in question, in true Jarmusch style, is also named Paterson (played with pinpoint subtly by Adam Driver). Paterson is a hard-working bus driver who quietly goes about his duties, all the while allowing the scenery and eavesdropped conversation to inspire his main passion in life; writing poetry. Meanwhile, his girlfriend and the love of his life, played without fault by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, is a stay-at-home creative. She spends her day baking imaginative cupcakes and making new curtains from scratch. The films narrative centres around a seven day week. Each day brings a new variation on the theme, and each moment a reflection on two people who wholeheartedly accept each other for who they are.
Paterson is a quiet and contemplative film that sits perfectly in Jarmusch's repertoire. It's a film about how people choose to live their life, regardless of the necessities to work and make money. Like poetry, the words and images flow with little dramatic tension or conflict. Jarmusch explained at Cannes that he intended Paterson to be an antidote to the modern action film, and if this is the case, I'll definitely be coming back for another dose.