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.
A lovely fable about the fragile, fruitful and occasionally fraught relationship between creativity and everyday life.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
20 May 2016
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Paterson himself is deathly allergic to pretension, and the film inhabits his sensibility. It's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Working-Class Stiff, arguing for the mundane beauty of all our lives.
– Mike D'Angelo,
AV Club,
20 May 2016
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There's an austerity to [Paterson's] days and to his processes that Jarmusch sells very effectively. And so does Driver, with his off-kilter sincerity.
– Alison Willmore,
BuzzFeed News,
20 May 2016
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Like many of Jarmusch's best films, this keeps surprising us with its minimal, witty inflections, at once epic and small-scale.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
13 Oct 2016
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Paterson's writing may never earn such notice, but his perceptions on everyday existence are a quiet delight.