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Permanent Vacation (1980)
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Jim Jarmusch (written by)
Release Date:
26 July 1986 (Japan)
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A young slacker wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Richard Boes | ... | War vet |
| Ruth Bolton | ... | Mother |
| Sara Driver | ... | Nurse |
| María Duval | ... | Latin girl |
| Frankie Faison | ... | Man in lobby |
| Jane Fire | ... | Nurse |
| Suzanne Fletcher | ... | Girl in car |
| Leila Gastil | ... | Leila |
| Chris Hameon | ... | French traveller |
| John Lurie | ... | Sax player |
| Eric Mitchell | ... | Car fence |
| Chris Parker | ... | Allie |
| Lisa Rosen | ... | Popcorn girl |
| Felice Rosser | ... | Woman by mailbox |
| Evelyn Smith | ... | Patient |
| Charlie Spademan | ... | Patient |
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75 min | Argentina:80 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)
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The book Allie gives Leila is "Maldoror and Poems" by Lautreamont (Penguin Classics 1978), one of the earliest surrealist stories.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Allie reads to Leila from the book, he does not read continuously but instead takes snippets from the text, skipping sentences as he does.
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References Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
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Up There in Orbit
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This film was a little hard to get through, although my jet-lag probably contributed to this. It did have that student film quality to it and the "permanent vacation" line was bad. I could have done without the poorly executed voice over, the content of which contributed to an amateurish nature.
Then again, is immaturity necessarily a bad thing in movies? Perhaps in this one it perfects the depressed pretentious adolescent mood, whether intentional or not. This feeling and certain images from the film, dancing, the apartment, the girl (especially), the mother, the destroyed landscape, have stayed with me this past week ... a good sign. Not one for the impatient viewer.