On February 16, 2017, the new film by the legendary American director Jim Jarmusch “Paterson” is released. Already, critics say that this is the best work of Jarmusch. Why else should you watch this movie?
Paterson is the name of the main character, who works as a bus driver and writes poetry in his spare time. Director Jim Jarmusch, author of the legendary anthology “Coffee and Cigarettes”, perhaps the most prominent representative of American independent cinema, this time made a film-sketch from the life of an ordinary American. Here are three reasons why you should watch this movie.
1. Learn how people become poets
It’s good that Jarmusch, most likely, does not know about Anna Akhmatova and the extent to which her lines are erased
“If only you knew from what rubbish poetry grows, without knowing shame. Like a yellow dandelion by the fence, like burdocks and quinoa … “
Otherwise, he would hardly have dared to make this almost his best film, a film about the poet Paterson, who lives in a small house in the small town of Paterson, half an hour from New York, with his adored brunette wife, who in an artistic impulse turns their house into black a white designer feat, and a jealous English bulldog. He works as a bus driver and composes poetry at the wheel and everywhere, wandering along the same route of everyday life.
2. Lovely rhymes
In the film, we see a week in the life of the hero – boring, but happy in its usual. But the life of Paterson and the film of the cunning Jarmusch are stuffed with cute rhymes. Paterson from the town of Paterson idolizes the poet William Carlos Williams, who worked here as a pediatrician (what could be more stable?) And sang the town and its inhabitants in a poem that is called “Paterson” … And Paterson is played by driver Adam Driver, a new star ( driver means “driver”). And the black and white design obsessed with his wife, the comedic beauty, is reminiscent of a time familiar to us from black and white cinema.
3.Werlibr
Paterson’s poems appear on the screen over the image, over the everyday existence of the hero and his city. He writes in vers libre, “free verse” that denies rhyme. He writes about blue-headed Ohio matches, about a local waterfall, about bricks from old factories. His poems are similar to his lunchbox – in it, next to a piece of cheese, lies a reproduction of Botticelli’s portrait of Dante …
His free verse is about the unimaginable beauty of everyday life.. After all, you can’t imagine how poetic, say, the conversations of the passengers of bus number 23 in Paterson.
This is a film about life, which itself is free verse. His poetry is not lost even if the poet… loses his notebook.
Producer: Jim Jarmusch.
Starring: Adam Driver, Golshifte Farahani, Barry Shebaka Henley.
Available from February 16th.
Jim Jarmusch
He is the author of the films “Stranger Than Paradise”, “Night on Earth”, “Broken Flowers”, etc. He created the myth of Johnny Depp in the film “Dead Man”, and in the film “Only Lovers Left Alive” turned bloodthirsty vampires into romantics.