Synopsis
If you ever left me, I'd tear my heart out and never put it back
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Paterson
2016 Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Cast
Adam Driver Golshifteh Farahani Nellie Rizwan Manji Dominic Liriano Jaden Michael Barry Shabaka Henley Trevor Parham Troy T. Parham Brian McCarthy Frank Harts Luis Da Silva Jr. Chasten Harmon William Jackson Harper Method Man Kacey Cockett Kara Hayward Jared Gilman Sterling Jerins Johnnie Mae Helen-Jean Arthur Joan Kendall Owen Asztalos Jorge Vega Sophia Muller Masatoshi Nagase Mirla Pereira James Van Treuren Martin Van Treuren Show All…
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Alternative Titles
Патерсон, 帕特森, 패터슨, פטרסון, Патерсън, 派特森, 柏德遜, Patersons, パターソン, Patersonas, Thành phố Paterson
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France
Cannes Film Festival
14 Jun 2016
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Australia
Sydney Film Festival
03 Jul 2016
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Czechia
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
14 Jul 2016
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Israel
Jerusalem Film Festival
29 Jul 2016
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Australia
Melbourne International Film Festival
08 Sep 2016
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Toronto International Film Festival
27 Sep 2016
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Zürich Film Festival
02 Oct 2016
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New York Film Festival
07 Oct 2016
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09 Oct 2016
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10 Oct 2016
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BFI London Film Festival
15 Oct 2016
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Chicago International Film Festival
22 Oct 2016
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USA
25 Oct 2016
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American Film Festival
27 Oct 2016
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USA
Philadelphia Film Festival
03 Nov 2016
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Greece
Thessaloniki Film Festival
05 Nov 2016
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USA
Hawaii Film Festival
09 Nov 2016
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Denmark
CPH: PIX
10 Nov 2016
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Portugal
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
12 Nov 2016
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USA
15 Nov 2016
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Sweden
Stockholm International Film Festival
18 Nov 2016
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Camerimage
19 Nov 2016
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Argentina
Mar del Plata Film Festival
27 Jan 2017
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International Film Festival Rotterdam
03 Feb 2017
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Netherlands
IFFR in Groningen
08 Feb 2017
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Netherlands
Chasing Reels
15 Apr 2017
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Theatrical limited
22 Dec 2016
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AustraliaM
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ItalyT
28 Dec 2016
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USAR
10 Feb 2017
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CanadaPG
07 Jun 2017
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SingaporeNC16
Theatrical
17 Nov 2016
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Germany0
18 Nov 2016
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Austria
25 Nov 2016
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Ireland15A
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UK15
07 Dec 2016
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Belgium
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SpainA
12 Dec 2016
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Slovenia
21 Dec 2016
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FranceTP
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Switzerland10
22 Dec 2016
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Switzerland10
29 Dec 2016
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ItalyT
30 Dec 2016
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Poland
05 Jan 2017
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Czechia
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DenmarkA
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Greece
06 Jan 2017
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Sweden15
20 Jan 2017
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Estonia
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FinlandK-7
03 Feb 2017
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Taiwan12+
09 Feb 2017
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10 Feb 2017
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Norway
16 Feb 2017
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Hungary12
24 Feb 2017
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Turkey
06 Apr 2017
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IsraelAll
20 Apr 2017
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Brazil12
04 May 2017
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Hong KongIIA
11 May 2017
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22 Jun 2017
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29 Jun 2017
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PortugalM/12
27 Jul 2017
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MexicoB
10 Aug 2017
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26 Aug 2017
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JapanG
09 Nov 2017
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ArgentinaATP
23 Nov 2017
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Uruguay
07 Dec 2017
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Malaysia
16 Dec 2017
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Russian Federation
21 Dec 2017
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South Korea12
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20 Apr 2017
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FranceTP
22 Jun 2017
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16 Jul 2022
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FranceTP
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04 Apr 2017
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26 Apr 2017
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FranceTP
11 Aug 2017
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Poland
TV
17 Jun 2019
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Argentina
19 Nov 2016
- Premiere Mar del Plata Film Festival
09 Nov 2017
- TheatricalATP
Australia
14 Jun 2016
- Premiere Sydney Film Festival
29 Jul 2016
- Premiere Melbourne International Film Festival
22 Dec 2016
- Theatrical limitedM
Austria
22 Oct 2016
- Premiere Vienna International Film Festival
18 Nov 2016
- Theatrical
Belgium
07 Dec 2016
- Theatrical
Brazil
20 Apr 2017
- Theatrical12
Canada
08 Sep 2016
- Premiere Toronto International Film Festival
10 Feb 2017
- Theatrical limitedPG
Chile
22 Jun 2017
- Theatrical
Colombia
10 Aug 2017
- Theatrical
Croatia
11 May 2017
- Theatrical
Czechia
03 Jul 2016
- Premiere Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
05 Jan 2017
- Theatrical
Denmark
09 Nov 2016
- Premiere CPH: PIX
05 Jan 2017
- TheatricalA
Estonia
12 Nov 2016
- Premiere Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
20 Jan 2017
- Theatrical
Finland
20 Jan 2017
- TheatricalK-7
France
16 May 2016
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
21 Dec 2016
- TheatricalTP
20 Apr 2017
- DigitalTP
26 Apr 2017
- PhysicalTP
16 Jul 2022
- DigitalTP Prime Video
Germany
17 Nov 2016
- Theatrical0
Greece
03 Nov 2016
- Premiere Thessaloniki Film Festival
05 Jan 2017
- Theatrical
Hong Kong
15 Apr 2017
- Premiere Hong Kong International Film Festival
04 May 2017
- TheatricalIIA
Hungary
16 Feb 2017
- Theatrical12
Ireland
25 Nov 2016
- Theatrical15A
Israel
14 Jul 2016
- Premiere Jerusalem Film Festival
06 Apr 2017
- TheatricalAll
Italy
22 Dec 2016
- Theatrical limitedT
29 Dec 2016
- TheatricalT
Japan
26 Aug 2017
- TheatricalG
Malaysia
07 Dec 2017
- Theatrical
Mexico
27 Jul 2017
- TheatricalB
Netherlands
27 Jan 2017
- Premiere International Film Festival Rotterdam
03 Feb 2017
- Premiere IFFR in Groningen
08 Feb 2017
- Premiere Chasing Reels
09 Feb 2017
- Theatrical6
Norway
10 Feb 2017
- Theatrical
Poland
25 Oct 2016
- Premiere American Film Festival
18 Nov 2016
- Premiere Camerimage
30 Dec 2016
- Theatrical
11 Aug 2017
- Physical
Portugal
10 Nov 2016
- Premiere Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
29 Jun 2017
- TheatricalM/12
17 Jun 2019
- TV RTP 2
Russian Federation
16 Dec 2017
- Theatrical
Singapore
07 Jun 2017
- Theatrical limitedNC16
Slovenia
12 Dec 2016
- Theatrical
South Korea
09 Oct 2016
- Premiere Busan International Film Festival
21 Dec 2017
- Theatrical12
Spain
07 Dec 2016
- TheatricalA
Sweden
15 Nov 2016
- Premiere Stockholm International Film Festival
06 Jan 2017
- Theatrical15
Switzerland
27 Sep 2016
- Premiere Zürich Film Festival
21 Dec 2016
- Theatrical10 French Speaking Region
22 Dec 2016
- Theatrical10 German Speaking Region
Taiwan
03 Feb 2017
- Theatrical12+
Turkey
24 Feb 2017
- Theatrical
UK
10 Oct 2016
- Premiere BFI London Film Festival
25 Nov 2016
- Theatrical15
USA
02 Oct 2016
- Premiere New York Film Festival
07 Oct 2016
- Premiere Mill Valley Film Festival
09 Oct 2016
- Premiere Hamptons International Film Festival
15 Oct 2016
- Premiere Chicago International Film Festival
22 Oct 2016
- Premiere Middleburg Film Festival
27 Oct 2016
- Premiere Philadelphia Film Festival
05 Nov 2016
- Premiere Hawaii Film Festival
12 Nov 2016
- Premiere AFI Fest
28 Dec 2016
- Theatrical limitedR
04 Apr 2017
- PhysicalR
22 Jun 2017
- DigitalR Prime Video
Uruguay
23 Nov 2017
- Theatrical
Popular reviews
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"[There's] always another day, right?"
A soft, relaxing ode to the brave act of getting out of bed every morning, and continuing to find your own avenues of creativity, love, and support in a world that doesn’t hand you any. Practically radical in its insistence on a simple, quiet, warm existence where everyone in the American working class is striving, creating, and loving despite everything else trying to confine them. Your first and last piece of art is the life you live—monumental, highly doubt there will be a better movie this year.
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I’m so overwhelmed. So many god damn motifs. This was like an episode of Louie but much better. I have a billion things to say about this. I need to watch it again or something and take notes and then write a biiiig fucking paper analyzing what all the little details mean. What’s with all the twins? What’s with the fireball thing? What’s with the circles? What’s with the black and white? What the FUCK is up with the Moonrise Kingdom kids talking philosophy on the bus?!?!!?!
This movie is a wet dream for someone who likes to analyze movies and I feel like I’m losing my mind AHHHAHHAHAHSH
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adam bus driver driving the moonrise kingdom kids around on a bus is peak cinema i think
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While most films tell you that being big and special is the only way to have a happy life, Paterson is a film that says it’s ok to be normal. It embraces the mundanity of life and shows the beauty of the people around you. It’s a beautiful film and I love it.
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73/100
Second viewing, no change. Still love everything except the one big, heavily foreshadowed plot element. Three small moments/observations that stood out this time (As Seen On Twitter™):
1. Paterson puts his clothes out every night, presumably so that he doesn't wake Laura in the morning opening drawers. Nothing is ever made of this; escaped me completely the first time. But it says so much about him.
2. Love the loud, mysterious clacking sound in the bar, which turns out to be a '90s-style jukebox with CDs in giant platters (with artwork attached) that you flip to browse.
3. OMFG the look of proud anticipation on the little girl's face just before she reads Paterson the final line of her poem ("Most people call it rain"). The essence of creativity in a single facial expression.
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One of the most authentic, understated, tender and conflict-lacking/caring relationships portrayed on screen in quite some time (nothing overdone) as well as being one of the most genuine and fully realized portraits of America, the American Honey of the Northeast, in a certain respect, despite the two films being incredibly disparate tonally. And that score, those superimpositions. Plus, I gotta give props to a film that quotes my favorite William Carlos Williams poem and maybe my favorite modern minimalist poem in general:
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox, and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me, they were delicious... so sweet, and so cold."
Also, Method Man should just have a little scene in every single film.
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What she says: I'm fine
What she means: My kid needs braces on her teeth, my car needs a transmission job, my wife wants me to take her to Florida but I'm behind on the mortgage payments, my uncle called from India and he needs money for my niece's wedding and I got this strange rash on my back. How about you? -
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
KeatsWith simplicity we can say the most complex things. I am convinced that this is a singular and universal truth. I've always considered it an artist's burden to chip away at the ugly reality and find the beautiful truth hidden behind it.
The world is, essentially, an awful place, but life isn't. Or shouldn't be.
But life more often than not gets bullied to the background and we need brilliant people like Jim Jarmusch to remind us of who we are. Or should be. Or can be.
Through Driver's absurdly overlooked, stellar performance, Jarmusch writes a poem that, like poems should, lifts the veil for just a bit, showing us the beautiful truth that made me look around and see my life surrounding me.
And it was beautiful.
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