Paterson

Jim Jarmusch
Part of

54th New York Film Festival

September 30 - 11, 2016

Adam Driver is Paterson, a bus driver who writes poetry and happens to live and work in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, with his effervescent and energetic girlfriend (Golshifteh Farahani). Jim Jarmusch’s exquisite film is set to the rhythm of an individual consciousness and is made under the sign of the great American poet and New Jersey resident William Carlos Williams.

DIRECTOR
Jim Jarmusch
YEAR
2016
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
118 minutes

Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver who writes poetry drawn from the world around him. Paterson is also the name of the New Jersey city where he works and lives with his effervescent and energetic girlfriend (Golshifteh Farahani). And Paterson is the title of the great epic poem by William Carlos Williams, whose spirit animates Jim Jarmusch’s exquisite new film. This is a rare movie experience, set to the rhythm of an individual consciousness absorbing the beauties and mysteries and paradoxes and joys and surprises of everyday life, at home and at work, and making them into art. An Amazon Studios release.

Jarmusch will be participating in On Cinema, our annual master class, on October 4.

The Paterson screenings are sponsored by The Village Voice. Click here to view their NYFF film coverage.

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