"Paterson" Starring Adam Driver as a Bus Driver/Poet in Paterson NJ

"Paterson" portends the quotidian grind of your average Joe. Not so-this falls far off the path for what is   a poetic, life-affirming movie that sheds extraordinary light on the seemingly mundane & repetitive.  True, this film takes a double look at what we all have in common.  But, this movie is two-fold; the everyday routine with reminders of hidden gems of astounding beauty & pleasure that should not be overlooked.   Paterson (an excellent Adam Driver) is a good-natured bus driver with a penchant for putting pen to paper & jotting down poetic lines.  Paterson, ironically is a bus driver in the town of the same name.  The movie is framed by the days of the week.  Commencing daily with waking almost like clock work to a cheerios breakfast before heading off to work & ending the evenings with a pint at the neighborhood pub.  Paterson's sunny disposition is due in large part to his girlfriend, Laura (a ravishing Golshifteh Farahani.)   Farahani is an infamous Iranian actress (b 1983.)  This role should put her on the map in ths US.  Laura is creative & multitalented.  She's an artist, aspiring musician & culinary whiz.  She's noted for her irrepressible spirit and joie de vivre.  Her penchant for black & white  only accentuates her exuberance & colorful traits.  The combined majestry of this artful film is more profuse than "Ground Hog Day" (a film starring Bill Murray) and a simple "wake up & smell the flowers" nomenclature."  The infinite possibilities for turning everything more interesting abound in this enchanting film directed/written by Jim Jarmusch (b Amer 1953.)  Jarmusch received the Grand Prix Cannes Film Prize ('05) for "Broken Flowers" (starring Bill Murray.)  There are so many delightful moments in this lackadisical film overflowing with poetry and life's simple pleasures.  This movie is an absolute treasure.  It's a movie that binds humanity while highlighting the gratifying, enriching qualities of the individual & the arts.  LOVE POEM (paraphrased): " We have plenty of matches in our house, sturdy little boxes with words lettered in the shape of a megaphone as if to say to the world, there is the most beautiful match in world.  So sober & furious & stubborn.  Ready to burst into flame.  And it was never really the same after that. Blazing with kisses that smolder towards heaven." I could easily see this movie repeatedly.