Arriving a few years after Jim Jarmusch’s rosy portrait of New Jersey’s third-largest city, Paterson, Jean-Cosme Delaloye (Stray Bullet) returns to the town. Harley is a fascinating character study of Harley Breite, a thriving criminal defense attorney who has made a living representing unsavory characters who he knows are guilty–or as he puts it: the police charged the right guy. He has plenty of reason to be cynical about Paterson, a town whose last elected mayor spent time in prison for corruption and whose current police director (a full-time job) magically also maintains a full-time job 120 miles away in Hazelton, Pa as their police chief.
While Paterson is where Breite has chosen to make a living, defending colorful characters in both drug court and criminal court, it’s not the central focus on the film–which is an unnamed, unseen girlfriend who resides in Switzerland with her boyfriend.
While Paterson is where Breite has chosen to make a living, defending colorful characters in both drug court and criminal court, it’s not the central focus on the film–which is an unnamed, unseen girlfriend who resides in Switzerland with her boyfriend.
- 5/17/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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