Adam Driver plays Paterson, a bus driver-cum-poet living and working in Paterson, New Jersey. Thinking while he drives, he writes snatches of verse on his lunch-break, taking inspiration from his passengers' conversations, before going home to his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), who's equally engaged in her own creative and cultural pursuits.

Jarmusch builds up a picture of Paterson’s life through small, amusing details and observations, the repetitions and patterns of which gradually take hold to deliver perhaps the most purely pleasurable film which screened at Cannes this year. It's a very American paean to the gentle delights, interiority and capacity of reflection afforded by small-town life.

Film of the week ★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

"will be treasured for years" ★★★★★ Telegraph

"poetry in motion" ★★★★★ Little White Lies

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