Product Details

• Actors: Richard Boes, John Lurie, Ruth Bolton, Sara Driver, Marķa Duval
• Directors: Jim Jarmusch
• Producers: Permanent Vacation
• Format: Import, PAL
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: AV Channel
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BC81S0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,855 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Two years before Jim Jarmusch obtained studio backing for the release of his cult hit Stranger than Paradise, he concocted this independent study of a young man named Allie (Chris Parker) who wanders around Manhattan. He runs into a few friends and strangers on the street and discusses Charlie Parker. He visits his institutionalized mother. He drops in on his girlfriend. If this seems a little erratic, it is, but Jarmusch has a way of working miracles from such material.
...Permanent Vacation

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jim Jarmusch ' s Op 1!, January 23, 2008

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: - Permanent Vacation (Vacaciones Permanentes) [Import NTSC Region 4] Jim Jarmusch (Spanish subtitles) (DVD)

From time, we use to observe every country has a filmmaker who works out as the tormented conscious of a state of unsaid things. Fritz Lang and Fassbinder in Germany, Alain Resnais in France, Antonioni and Roselini in Italy, Mizoguchi in Japan, Kaurismaki in Finland, the first Polanski and Wajda in Poland and Greenaway in U.K. constitute a sort of architects of the existential boredom that surround us but that we usually tend to overlook them and accept them as part of our quotidian existence.

"permanent vacation" is in this sense, an unpleasant, rending and painful portrait about a set of hallucinated personages who have crossed the border of the sanity and have decided not return.

Chris parker is the main character of this urban nightmare, who walks around desert streets and desolated alleys. He meets on the road, a Vietnam vet who still suffers in his mind the horrors of the war; a Latin girl who sings (for not crying) in a wrecked house without walls, a sax player who plays with morbid pleasure the theme "Over the rainbow", but that remarks (Aki Kaurismaki would do the same with this theme in Ariel) with poetic cynicism the well known burden "There` s no place like home" in
"Wizard of Oz" .

Parker visits her mother in the hospital and is aware she is out of her mind, establishing her own paradise in the frontiers of the insanity.

But the end of the film will keep you at the border of your seat, once we realize the boredom is global, and all of those who have decided themselves to become outlaw citizens are travellers in search of the new Babylonia.

The movie is hovered by a minimalist atmosphere that reminds us to Antonioni' s The eclipse and Bresson' s The argent."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could have been done better, but is good enough, March 29, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Permanent Vacation [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (DVD)

I like the line where the main character announces something like this: Everywhere you go in life it's basically going to be the same, maybe one place has a bigger bathroom, maybe the other a different kind of refridgerator, but basically it's always going to be the same no matter where you go... In a certain (cosmic) sense that is probably true. ... I saw this film years ago, and it made an impression, as did Jarmusch's other movies. He really had a distinctive style.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars something in the air, February 3, 2007

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This review is from: Permanent Vacation [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (DVD)

This movies is about a young New Yorker, nothing to do but dancing under recorder in a factually empty room in lapidated house, shared with semi-unemployed girlfriend, hanging around in the messy uninhabited NYC areas of the last century eighties, supporting existence with thievery.

Also boredom and mental health state of pre-Juliani era grounded every moment of a movie, something romantic and attracting viewing definitely highlights talents of a producer, Jarmusch.

In new suite, a male character tries escaping somewhere-it seems, Staten Island was a destination as last fragments had shown.