Jim Jarmusch directs Tom Waits, Adam Driver and Charlotte Rampling in this anthology indie exploring the detached relationships between “close” family members.

You can never truly know anyone, especially those you share DNA with. Jarmusch was one of the first auteurs I embraced as my own. And while I have caught just about everything he has done at the cinema since Ghost Dog I have felt he has gone distinctly off the boil after that apex. This is a fine little doodle with a hip cast and cute repetitions. Probably only exists as there was funding and the right actors said yes. Nice to see Paris again through Jim’s lens. Vicky Krieps has pink hair, Waits is stellar and Blossom is an uptight tweedy nerd. I need to make searchable notes on two of these things. A wispy nothing. Mood poem.

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Perfect Double Bill: Paterson (2016)

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