Jarmusch, Driver bewitch Cannes with poetic 'Paterson'

CANNES, France (AP) — Jim Jarmusch debuted his patient, bus driver-poet drama "Paterson" at the Cannes Film Festival where festival-goers responded enthusiastically to the film's gentle and quirky rhythms.

In the movie, Adam Driver plays a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry inspired by conversations he overhears.

The film, too, has a rhyming, internal tempo, full of everyday repetitions and is populated by twins in the background.

Jarmusch, the New York filmmaker of "Broken Flowers" and "Only Lovers Left Alive," acknowledged even he struggles to describe the film's combination of working-class and creative life, inspired partly by the Paterson poet and doctor William Carlos Williams.

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