Paterson (2016)

Jim Jarmusch's new movie has a strange dream like quality to it even though on the surface it follows a man through a week in his life.

The movie’s protagonist, played with spectacular attention to detail by Adam Driver is named Paterson.  He writes poetry that is straightforward and evocative of place.  He does it in his notebook throughout his day.  He lives with a woman that he describes as someone who gets him.  He also gets her.  Each day he comes home and she has transformed some part of his home into something entirely unique with paint and shapes, and love.  He also drives a New Jersey Transit bus around the New Jersey city of Paterson, where he also lives. Paterson, New Jersey was once an industrial center of the United States—a storied manufacturer of silks and textiles—that fell into a kind of ruin by the time this film reviewer moved there, to live, in 1978. It has undergone several not-quite-revivals since that time. Its main fame today is in its being the ostensible subject of an epic modernist American poem by William Carlos Williams, who lived in nearby Rutherford.  A profoundly decent man living a simple life that is momentarily shattered when the dog eats his work is depicted with love and care in this quiet film..