Permanent Vacation (film)

• Chris Parker as Allie
• Leila Gastil as Leila
• Ruth Bolton as a mother
• Frankie Faison as a man in the lobby

Permanent Vacation is an independent film by director Jim Jarmusch, shot in 1980 in the United States. It is the feature film debut of Jarmusch, who worked as a director, producer, editor, cinematographer and composer.

Action

The film follows the homeless 16 -year-old Allie, whose father abandoned the family and his mother sitting in a mental hospital, through the streets of Manhattan. In his search for meaning in his life he crosses the paths of various interesting and bizarre people.

Jim Jarmusch's film debut is a lyrical portrait of Manhattan and the 16 -year-old Allie Parker, who was born in the early 1960s and has a fondness for the early 1950s and late 1940s. In reformatories and youth prisons grew up, he spends his time in different places, always finds new friends, moves constantly, has never own a home. In this seemingly empty space on the Lower East Side is growing a new culture: Aerosols characters, music scraps, fleeting, no past and no future.

Background

• Jarmusch shot the film as the closing film of his studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
• Permanent Vacation is also the debut of John Lurie, a longtime friend of Jarmusch, who has worked as a composer or actor even in some of his later films.

Awards

Permanent Vacation premiered (now International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg ) and was awarded at the Mannheim Film Festival with the Josef von Sternberg price.