Paterson (film)

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Movie
German title Paterson
Original title Paterson
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Jim Jarmusch
script Jim Jarmusch
production Joshua Astrakhan ,
Carter Logan
music Jim Jarmusch,
Carter Logan,
Sqürl
camera Frederick Elmes
cut Affonso Gonçalves
occupation

Paterson is a film by Jim Jarmusch about a bus driver who has dedicated himself to poetry. It premiered on May 16, 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on November 17, 2016. The film opened in US cinemas on December 28, 2016.

action

Paterson's daily spot for his lunch break at the Passaic River Falls

The film shows seven days in the life of Paterson, a bus driver in the city of Paterson , New Jersey . He lives in a small house with his wife Laura and the English bulldog Marvin. While Paterson is a good-natured, calm and taciturn man, Laura mostly seems restless. She is constantly babbling, talking to Paterson and always has new plans for her future career. One day she wants to be a musician, then she wants to open a cupcake bakery again . She is incessantly redesigning the house, painting walls, doors and curtains or she makes clothes in her favorite colors black and white. While Laura lives out her creative streak in decorating the apartment, Paterson devotes herself to poetry . Laura constantly tries to persuade her husband to publish his poems, or at least to copy them, but that doesn't matter.

Paterson subordinates poetry to his routine life. Every morning he wakes up at about a quarter past six without the need for an alarm clock. He kisses his wife, who is still sleeping, and always has the same cereal for breakfast. Before he leaves on the bus in the morning, he briefly writes a few thoughts in his notebook. He also spends every lunch break on a bench overlooking the Passaic River falls . While Paterson drives the same route of the city bus line 23 like clockwork every day, past the famous waterfalls, he catches scraps of conversation from his passengers here and there, which stimulate his imagination and inspire him to write.

After work, he goes down to a narrow basement room crammed with paint pots and books - a framed portrait of William Carlos Williams hangs on the wall - and writes down his poems. Marvin spends most of the time in an armchair in the living room, occasionally he seems to express his dislike for Paterson with a gruff snort and a displeased expression. For Laura, Marvin is a bit of a substitute for a child. For Paterson, the dog is a burden, he doesn't like him, but he hardly shows it. After dinner with Laura, he takes the dog out and has exactly one beer in his local pub. He talks a little with the landlord, who has put up a bulletin board with newspaper clippings about people from the city of Paterson. He watches the regulars and listens to their conversations.

The days Monday through Thursday are pretty uniform. On Friday, Paterson's bus breaks down and breaks down. Paterson is off duty on Saturday. He and his wife go to dinner with the money Laura earned selling cupcakes, then to the cinema and watch the classic horror film Island of Lost Souls there. When they get home, Marvin tore up Paterson's notebook with all of his poetry.

On Sunday, which is also off duty, Paterson goes for a walk dejectedly. At the city's waterfall, he is approached by a Japanese tourist and poet visiting the hometown of the poet William Carlos Williams. From his pocket he pulls a book of Williams' poems translated into Japanese. When asked if he is a poet too, Paterson hesitates until he finally says no; he is just a bus driver. Before he leaves, the tourist gives him an exquisitely bound notebook with blank pages. Paterson thinks a little, takes his pen, and starts to write.

The next day, Monday, Paterson wakes up on time to start his routines.

production

Adam Driver , in the film The Poetry-Gifted Bus Driver, at the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

Paterson was produced by the German company K5 and by Amazon Studios under the Amazon Original Movies label .

Director Jim Jarmusch also wrote the script. The American actor Adam Driver played the eponymous main character Paterson, the Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani , who lives in France, played his wife Laura. For Masatoshi Nagase , a Japanese poet in the film, Paterson was the second film with Jarmusch after Mystery Train .

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Änne Troester and the dialogue direction by Harald Wolff on behalf of TaunusFilm Synchron GmbH, Berlin. Julien Haggège lends his voice to Paterson in the German version, and Sanam Afrashteh to his wife Laura.

The shooting took place in Paterson in the US state of New Jersey , the location of the film. After Night on Earth and Broken Flowers , the film was Jarmusch's third collaboration with cameraman Frederick Elmes . Mark Friedberg designed the production .

The poems appearing in the film come from Ron Padgett , the favorite poet of the filmmaker Jarmusch. The Oklahoma-born poet is considered a poet of the New York School . The minimalist texts that Jarmusch has his protagonist Paterson write are inspired by the work of the poet William Carlos Williams , who wrote an epic poem in five volumes about the city of Paterson, which is considered his masterpiece. Jim Jarmusch wrote the poem Water Fall .

The soundtrack is from Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch . In December 2016, the soundtrack was included as a contender in the Best Film Music category for the 2017 Academy Awards on the list of candidates (longlist) , from which the members of the Academy determine the official nominations. On September 22, 2017, the soundtrack for the film, which includes eight pieces of music, was released by Third Man Records.

The film premiered on May 16, 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival . On the Filmkunstmesse Leipzig was Paterson first time to a German trade visitors in September 2016th A screening followed in October 2016 as part of the Hof International Film Festival and at the Viennale . Paterson came to German cinemas on November 17, 2016 . The film is distributed by Weltkino Filmverleih in Germany and Austria and by Filmcoopi in Switzerland. Amazon Studios holds the rights for the US market, where the film opened on December 28, 2016.

reception

Age rating

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK without any age restriction. The release certificate states: “The film, told in a very calm and undramatic way, is aimed at a young and adult audience. A gently dramatic scene in a pub is quickly resolved and does not create a frightening effect even on the youngest viewers. The film does not contain any other scenes or dialogues that could affect preschoolers or negatively overwhelm them. "

Reviews and grossing results

The film was able to convince 96 percent of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes and was thus one of the best rated films of 2016. Andreas Platthaus from the FAZ calls Paterson a quiet masterpiece that should make the otherwise loud cinema competition mute with envy. The British film magazine Sight & Sound named Paterson in the top ten best films of the year.

Jan Schulz-Ojala from Tagesspiegel thinks that painfully little happens in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson . According to Schulz-Ojala, the film is “a declaration of love to writing and certainly a declaration of love, but first and foremost one to being.” Talia Soghomonian from collider also recognizes the homage to the poetry that the director created and says: “ Jarmusch does not try to convey a message, but just to create poetry with a unique texture. And while the pace feels as slow as the bus commutes through Paterson, there is still a heavenly life story opening up in the city of poetry. "

Karsten Visarius from epd Film says that from the arrangement of the letters on a matchbox that Paterson seals to the stories that the commuters tell each other on the bus, the film is shaped by patterns, rhymes and correspondence and thus celebrates what is happening in the age almost lost the digital formation, namely the art of acting in everyday life and the creativity of the individual, and the film itself is a poem. For Fritz Göttler from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , too , Paterson is a film about everyday things: “'Paterson' is completely unspectacular, the city, the man, the film, there are no exciting events, no aggression, no violence at night Streets, as we know them from America in the last few months, not even very many people walk there. ”According to Göttler, Jarmusch has created a film that is not about narration but about observation and which emphasizes the materiality and beauty of the written words and writing as action celebrate what is rare in the age of permanent blockbuster exaggeration and overload.

The film recorded 182,383 visitors in Germany. In the USA, where it has so far only been shown in selected cinemas, the revenue is around 2.2 million US dollars, worldwide around 8.4 million US dollars.

Awards (selection)

Director Jim Jarmusch at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival

David di Donatello 2017

  • Nomination in the category Best Foreign Film

Cannes Film Festival 2016

Gotham Independent Film Award 2016

  • Nomination for best feature film
  • Nomination in the Best Screenplay category
  • Nomination for Best Actor ( Adam Driver )

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017

  • Nomination for the MovieZone Award (Jim Jarmusch)

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2017

  • Nomination in the category Best Actor (Adam Driver)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2016

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2017

Toronto Film Critics Association Award 2016

  • Best Actor (Adam Driver)

Web links

Commons : Paterson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to Paterson . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 163243 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Ali Jaafar: Adam Driver To Star In Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson', Amazon And K5 To Co-Finance In: deadline.com, January 12, 2016
  3. ↑ 145 Original Scores In 2016 Oscar Race In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson' to Be Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, September 21, 2017.
  5. ^ Matt Donnelly: Cannes Report, Day 6: Adam Driver's 'Paterson' Inspires Poetic Reviews, Amazon Studios Parties on Riviera In: thewrap.com, May 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ Program In: filmkunstmesse.de, accessed on September 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ All films of the 16th Filmkunstmesse Leipzig 2016 In: filmkunstmesse.de, accessed on August 30, 2016 (PDF; 47 kB)
  8. ^ Program of the Viennale 2016, accessed on November 16, 2016 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
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  10. ↑ Leo Barraclough: Jim Jarmusch's Cannes Competition Title 'Paterson' Sells Around the World In: Variety, June 21, 2016.
  11. ↑ Reasons for approval for Paterson In: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft, accessed on November 18, 2016.
  12. ↑ Paterson In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  13. ↑ Top 100 Movies of 2016 In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  14. ↑ Eliza Berman: These Movies Were All Certified Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes in 2016 In: time.com, December 21, 2016.
  15. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: You can hardly tell more emphatically about poetry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.faz.net   Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ Adam Chitwood: Sight & Sound's Top 20 Films of 2016 List Lead by 'Toni Erdmann' In: collider.com, December 2, 2016.
  17. ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: To Paterson! In: Der Tagesspiegel, May 16, 2016.
  18. ^ Talia Soghomonian: 'Paterson' Review: Adam Driver Shines in Jim Jarmusch's Latest. Cannes 2016 In: collider.com, 17th May 2016.
  19. ↑ Karsten Visarius: Film of the Month November 'Paterson' In: epd Film, November 2, 2016.
  20. ↑ Fritz Göttler: Zen Art in the Age of Blockbuster Hustle and bustle In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 17, 2016.
  21. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2016 In: insidekino.com, accessed on July 22, 2020.
  22. ↑ Paterson In: boxofficemojo.com, accessed May 25, 2017.
  23. ↑ David di Donatello 2017: Tutti i film in concorso In: amica.it, accessed on March 25, 2017.
  24. ↑ in the film Paterson and Laura's dog Marvin; The award, introduced in 2001, was awarded posthumously for the first time. Source: Vikram Murthi: The 2016 Palm Dog Posthumously Awarded to Nellie, The Dog From Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson' In: indiewire.com, May 20, 2016.
  25. ↑ Halle Kiefer: 'Manchester by the Sea', 'Moonlight' Top the Gotham Award Nominations, and List of Films You'll Probably Have in Your Oscar Pool In: vulture.com, October 20, 2016.
  26. ↑ MovieZone Award In: iffr.com, accessed on May 3, 2017.
  27. ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: 'Moonlight', 'Love & Friendship' Lead London Critics' Circle Nominations In: deadline.com, December 20, 2016.
  28. ↑ Ross A. Lincoln and Greg Evans: Los Angeles Film Critics Name 'Moonlight' Best Picture Of The Year In: deadline.com, December 4, 2016.
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  30. ↑ TFCA, winners 2016 ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allthehitssofar.com archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: llthehitssofar.com, accessed March 26, 2017.