3 More Film reviews… Paterson, Split and Manchester By The Sea
PATERSON PATERSON is a new film by Jim Jarmusch. It follows a week (a Monday to Monday) in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry, is married to Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), a home-body ‘adventuring’ with artistic explorations in ‘black and white’ forays, with an English Bulldog, called Marvin (Nellie), for company. Every day has a similar pattern of task, at variance only on the weekend. It is about the little everyday world and the ordinary intimacies of exchange between the casual acquaintances of the bus route and his nightly visit to…