The hero of the week is a bus driver who conscientiously gets up every morning to get to work on time. Paterson lives in Paterson, the city that was also home to the poet William Carlos Williams and the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

He is good to his wife, who starts a new creative project almost every day, and she is good to him too. Every evening, he walks his dog to the local bar. And whenever he finds time, he writes poems. The days all look very similar, but none of them is actually the same.

Paterson is not desperately looking for tears in the shroud of his daily routine. The quiet but not indifferent young man looks, listens, walks, and writes the shroud away. There is always something – a story, an image, an encounter – that colours the day. Jim Jarmusch summarises the happy life in this deceptively simple, anti-dramatic, highly refined film that has a rich aftertaste. Driver and Farahani tune their performances to Jarmusch's elegant search for the poetry that is all around us.

> Paterson. US, 2016, dir.: Jim Jarmusch, act.: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, 118min., Galeries, Le Stockel, UGC De Brouckère, UGC Gulden Vlies/Toisond'Or, Vendôme

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