Adam Driver’s Paterson is a refreshing and compelling look at the beauty of life and the mundane
This film reminds us that we all just want to be content in our lifes
Paterson
(15) 118mins
A REFRESHING tonic in an average week of movies. This, from the director of Only Lovers Left Alive, is soothing, gentle and calming - focusing on the beauty in the minutiae of life, the satisfaction of repetition and the poetry in the mundane.
Adam Driver, taking a break from doing you-know-what as Kylo Ren spends eight days as bus driver Paterson (both his name and the setting for the movie) - allowing us a glimpse of a human being enjoying his life in which nothing really happens (most of our lives, if we’re honest).
Lovely and compelling to watch
He has a bulldog, drives a bus, kisses his wife in the morning, eats his packed lunch, writes poetry, walks his dog to the pub in the evening, he talks to people about not a lot... and it's both compelling and lovely to watch.
Don’t expect anything to happen.
Just watch and let it wash over you.
A clever reminder that none of us want much more than to be content.
★★★☆☆