Friday, June 18, 2021

Paterson

Paterson is a 2016 award-winning Jim Jarmusch film starring Adam Driver. I watched it on Amazon Prime. A lovely way to spend a couple of hours.

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Vox says, "Paterson, the quietly philosophical tale of a bus-driving poet, is one of 2016's best films". Rolling Stone says, "Jim Jarmusch Scores With Tribute to Poetry All Around Us" and calls it "a quiet celebration of everyday people". Empire Online closes: "Quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, this is one of Jarmusch’s finest and features Adam Driver’s best performance yet — although you do risk coming out with a new affection for modernist poetry."

The New Yorker opens a positive review with this:
im Jarmusch is among the rarest and most precious filmmakers of our time, because, at his best—as he is in his new film, “Paterson”—he conjures an entire world of his own imagination. He does so with his wry and tamped-down tone, his loping rhythms, his puckishly frontal compositions, his worn-in sense of design, the winking terseness of his dialogue—and the loving precision of his documentary-rooted observations, which anchor his microcosmic cinematic world, with its austerely whimsical passions, in the world at large.

Roger Ebert's site concludes, "That is ultimately the very real thing that the movie is about: the conviction that if you can live at least part of your life breathing poetry (and that poetry is not necessarily a verbal thing), you can make your life more worthwhile." Rotten Tomatoes has a critics consensus score of 96%.

I have also seen these other Jarmusch films:



18 comments:

  1. ...a bus-driving poet sounds interesting.

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  2. This film sounds lovely. I should add it to my list for a rainy day. HAppy Friday Nita.

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  3. I think I'll have to watch this alone. Himself wasn't impressed with "The Quiet Duel" which I thoroughly enjoyed. I think he was expecting a knock-down Kung Fu movie only it was Kung Fu of a different kind and beautifully acted and photographed.

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    1. The Quiet Duel is not Kung Fu lol A serious drama. Kurosawa's films tend towards drama. If you liked it you should try Ikiru, which is one of the greatest movies ever. Takashi Shimura stars. Paterson is also a drama.

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  4. Looks like a good one to try.

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  5. I was impressed with his words. I wasn't convinced it was poetry as I'm accustomed to, but it was an interesting trailer. Sorry I don't have Prime.

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    1. I looked but didn't see it anywhere else :(

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  6. This sounds like a beautiful film, I've added it to my list, thanks! Valerie

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  7. Oh, I think I would like this one very much. It sounds exactly like the kind of film I like -- small, indie films with interesting major characters and no super action!

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  8. Oh yes! This was such a lovely movie! Saw it back when it came out on Netflix. :)

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    1. It's so perfect :) It unfolds so beautifully!

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