Permanent Vacation (1980)

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Movie
German title Permanent Vacation
Original title Permanent Vacation
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jim Jarmusch
script Jim Jarmusch
production Jim Jarmusch
music Jim Jarmusch
John Lurie
camera Tom DiCillo
James A. Lebovitz
cut Jim Jarmusch
occupation

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

action

The film follows the homeless 16-year-old Allie, whose father has left the family and whose mother is in a mental hospital , through the streets of Manhattan . In his search for a 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 16-year-old Allie Parker, who was born in the early 1960s and has a taste for the early 1950s and late 1940s. He grew up in correctional institutions and juvenile prisons, spends his time in a wide variety of places, always makes new friends, keeps moving, and nowhere has his own home. A new culture is growing in this apparently empty space on the Lower East Side : spray can signs, scraps of music, fleeting, with no past and no future.

background

  • Jarmusch shot the film as the graduation 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's, who also worked as a composer or actor in some of his later films.

Awards

Permanent Vacation had its premiere at the Mannheimer Filmwoche (today Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg) and was awarded the Josef von Sternberg Prize.

literature

  • Tina Hedwig Kaiser: Recordings of the crossing. The transitory in the film . Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-931-2

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