Permanent Vacation (1980)

Directed by

Jim Jarmusch

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 218 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man named Aloysious wanders the streets of New York City, drifting through encounters and observing the life around him. The film follows his solitary journey with little conventional plot.

no wavelow-budgetunderstatedwanderingmoodyfree-formcharacter-driven

What happens

Permanent Vacation is a 1980 No Wave film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, shot on 16 mm film shortly after he left film school. Jarmusch came to New York City from Akron, Ohio to study at Columbia University and NYU's film school. Music by John Lurie, Earl Bostic and Jim Jarmusch. Sound by Kevin Dowd and Virgil Moorefield. Cinematography by Tom DiCillo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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