Paterson
2016
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Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley, Cliff Smith, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper, Masatoshi Nagase, Rizwan Manji, Kara Hayward
Paterson, who lives in Paterson, New Jersey with his wife and dog, is a professional bus driver and an amateur poet. This subdued and slow-paced slice of life by Jim Jarmusch offers some mild foreboding but absolutely no drama whatsoever. It depicts a week in the life of its protagonist, who seems perfectly content with his mundane Groundhog Day-like existence. I cannot decide whether I'm charmed or bored by this minimalism.
