Past Event29 Jul - 30 Jul 2016

Paterson

No longer available

The Civic

Film

“Writer-director Jim Jarmusch often explores existential themes, but they’ve perhaps never been so beautifully unadorned as they are in Paterson, a deceptively modest character piece that’s profound and moving while remaining grounded in the everyday. Observing a bus driver (played with incredible grace by Adam Driver) over eight days, the movie turns the tiny details of its protagonist’s life into a deeply felt consideration of marriage, love, compromise and the casual oddities inherent in being alive...

Living with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), a cupcake chef who dreams of becoming a country music star, Paterson (who just so happens to live in Paterson, New Jersey) goes through his daily routine, which includes jotting down some lines for his latest poem and stopping by his favorite bar every night...

“It’s about so many things: The energy that keeps even an economically depressed city’s lifeblood thrumming, the closeness but also the inherent loneliness of couplehood, the way the things we do in our spare time can come to define who we are.

It’s about love and poetry and dreams, and about the chance encounter that can close a wound with the magic efficiency of a tiny butterfly bandage. How you pour all of that into one movie is something of a mystery – but then, a good poem is always something of a mystery too.” - Stephanie Zacharek, Time

Neither romanticizing Paterson’s ordinary life nor patronisingly lamenting it, Jarmusch crafts a wonderfully precise portrait that’s both specific and universal.” - Tim Grierson, Screendaily

Paterson

USA 2016 
115 mins
DCP

Director/Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch

Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan

Photography: Frederick Elmes

Editor: Affonso Gonçalves

Production designer: Mark Friedberg

Costume designer: Catherine George

Music: Sqürl

With: Adam Driver (Paterson), Golshifteh Farahani (Laura), Chasten Harmon (Marie), Barry Shabaka Henley (Doc), William Jackson Harper (Everett), Rizwan Manji (Donny)

Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016

For tickets and details about films at other venues, please visit the New Zealand International Film Festival website.

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