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A drifter (Chris Parker) wanders Manhattan searching for purpose and meaning, seeing his girlfriend (Leila Gastil) and meeting strangers.
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The film that defined Jarmusch's unique style, Permanent Vacation is an intimate study in the search for meaning in life. Suffering a bout of insomnia, sixteen year old...
Jim Jarmusch's 16mm feature debut, made not long after the writer/director graduated from film school, is an oblique study of a young man (Parker) adrift on the streets of New York. As he roams, he has chance encounters with a car thief, a saxophone player and a grizzled war veteran, among others.
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Permanent Vacation - Zucker Hut [Permanent Vacation, 2009]
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Permanent Vacation. Eric Bury, a mild mannered and workaholic Englishman, is ordered by his boss to take a vacation. After briefly consulting with his wife and teenage children, he decides on a family camping trip.
Permanent Vacation follows two and a half days in the life of Aloysious Parker in New York, a young wanderer with no home, no school, and no job. At the age of sixteen, Allie drifts into and out of strange encounters with other misfits; almost all of them exiles from the daily, working world.
Permanent Vacation. Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1980 • United States. Starring Chris Parker, Sara Driver, John Lurie. Jim Jarmusch’s first feature displays the first hints of the deadpan, minimalist-cool style that he would refine in his breakthrough STRANGER THAN PARADISE.
