Why Nik From Extraction Looks So Familiar

There are few names on the indie film scene that carry quite as much reverence as Jim Jarmusch. Since quietly emerging with 1984's free-wheeling dramedy Stranger Than Paradise, Jarmush has applied his singular style to a dozen feature films, each of which has further established him as an auteur of unflappable vision whose work simply oozes cinematic cool. Along the way, Jarmusch has founded fertile relationships with big-screen paramours like John Lurie, Tom Waits, and Bill Murray. 

Most recently, Jarmusch hit it off the one and only Adam Driver, who portrays the kindly bus driver Paterson in the director's 2016 drama Paterson. Set in Paterson, NJ, the film finds Driver playing a gifted poet who's day job is piloting a bus around the titular city. It also finds him discovering uncommon beauty in the seemingly everyday aspects of the world, reflected in the poetry he crafted throughout.

When Paterson isn't finding poetic inspiration in the world passing by his windshield, he frequently finds it at home, where his impetuous wife Laura almost manically trips from one minor obsession to the next. Farahani plays Laura, bringing a bright energy to the otherwise ponderous film. Her character inspires one of Paterson's most vividly realized romantic works just before her mean-spirited little pooch goes and gobbles it up.