![]() In January 2016, it was revealed that Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani had been cast in the film, with Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur serving as executive producers under their K5 Film banner, while Joshua Astrachan and Carter Logan would produce under their Animal Kingdom and Inkjet banners respectively. In April 2014, it was announced that Jim Jarmusch would write and direct a film about a poet living in Paterson, New Jersey. The film ends with Paterson writing a poem in his new notebook. The man seems to know that Paterson himself is a poet even though he denies it and hands him a gift, an empty notebook. There, a Japanese man ( Masatoshi Nagase) takes a seat beside him and begins a conversation about poetry after Paterson notices that the man is reading the book-length poem Paterson by William Carlos Williams. The next day, a dejected Paterson goes for a walk and sits down at his favorite site, the Great Falls of the Passaic River. But when Paterson and Laura come home from a movie on Saturday night, they find that Marvin has shredded his notebook, destroying his poems. He finally promises to go to the copy shop on the weekend. She has long urged him to publish them or at least make copies. Paterson's wife, Laura, loves his poems and is apparently their only audience. After work he walks Marvin, his wife's dog, and stops for a beer at Shades Bar, where he interacts with the other patrons and the owner, Doc ( Barry Shabaka Henley). Every day follows much the same pattern: Paterson gets up early and goes to work, where he listens to passengers talking and, during pauses, writes poetry in a notebook he carries with him. The film spans one week, beginning with Monday, in the life of Paterson, a NJ Transit Bus Operations driver in Paterson, New Jersey. It was released in Germany on November 17, 2016, by K5 International in France on December 21, 2016, by Le Pacte and in the United States on December 28, 2016, by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street. Paterson was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palm Dog Award. The film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and Golshifteh Farahani as his wife, who dreams of being a country music star and opening a cupcake business. Of course Kylo Ren was human beneath the mask.Paterson is a 2016 drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. He’s the rare actor who understands that vulnerability and weakness are different things, and he doesn’t shy away from either of those things. His talent for projecting pettiness, self-doubt, and stunted emotions has made him an unpredictable and engaging quantity onscreen. Even when his characters travel to the furthest reaches of space, they’ve always remained grounded in the minor shortcomings of human behavior. His gawkiness and flaws speak to the ones we see in ourselves. But his perpetual state of desperately-working-on-it has struck a chord with the public. A few decades ago, Driver would have been a gawky Peter Lorre, a weird presence strategically deployed for supporting roles. It-heartthrobs like Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt can balance sex symbol status with inveterate silly streaks. Musclemen like Dwayne Johnson and Terry Crews are free to be as gentle or goofy as they please. He comes to Hollywood in a cinematic era when the nature of manliness appears to be more elastic than ever. ![]() In a larger sense, Driver arrived at the best possible time. ![]() And in Paterson, the only lesson he learns is just how little he understands of the world. His hipster documentarian in Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young floats through life with minimal self-awareness. On Girls, his character Adam keeps hopping between phases of arrested development. Driver prefers to play men who don’t exactly mature, but rather advance to a new stage of flux. Paterson shows himself by reacting to his world rather than shaping it, and that reaction is either quiet contentment, or equally muted discomfort. Guidebooks advise young scriptwriters that conflict and growth are the two engines for compelling characters and sound stories, but Driver takes a back route to creating his character. Paterson (the character) enjoys a simple, modest existence: he wakes up without an alarm, drafts poems in a small notebook before the workday gets going, enjoys a single beer at the neighborhood bar after driving all over town, and goes home to his beloved artsy wife (Golshifteh Farahani).
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