Paterson

PATERSON tells the story of the bus driver Paterson, who has the same name as the place where he lives. The small town in New Jersey and its peculiar inhabitants are the inspiration for his poems, which he writes day after day during his lunch break on the park bench. The world of his wife Laura, on the other hand, is constantly changing. Almost daily she has new dreams, each one of them a different, inspiring project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions and she admires his gift for poetry. The new film by cult director Jim Jarmusch devotes itself with great attention to detail and his usual laconic humour to his quirky characters, above all to Paterson, the fine spirit embodied by shooting star Adam Driver. Through maximum minimalism Jarmusch succeeds in creating a literal poem from a film.