FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Jim Jarmusch - Permanent Vacation 

Later he revived the independent film in the 80s: Jim Jarmusch, America's first hipster. Jarmusch is never in a hurry. Filmic. He lingers on a scene. He doesn't follow his characters - their movements seem to determine his pictures. Jarmusch inconspicuously manipulates time itself. Who remembers his breakthrough with "Stranger than paradise"? Officially his debut, but before that he filmed Permanent Vacation, the most original of all New York hipster films. His eyes are on the fools and outsiders. He observes them objectively, even at a high level. In his early work he prefers black and white. Jarmusch loves poetic, strange conversations and situations. And he established his very own kind of "stars": Jim Jarmusch "stars" like Tom-Waits or Roberto-Benigni. His films live from nostalgia and shabby melancholy (does that even exist?). All this is embedded in comedies of visual beauty. Inspiring, isn't it? Let me say to the many filmmakers in Kreuzberg: Permanent Vacation is a student film. It follows two days in the life of Aloysious Parker or Allie (Chris Parker), a slacker without a fixed home, without a school-leaving certificate & job. He has lived in different places with very different people. They all have one thing in common: they do not belong to the daily working world. Does that sound familiar? Yes, that could be around the corner with us, even if everyone claims that Kreuzberg is changing too quickly. At any rate, Allie is now sixteen. Always on the move, always one step ahead, but there is something following him... Whoever reads more about Permanent Vacation will find out that the life of the main character and the main actor is similar. The film takes place in the backyards of Manhattan, but above all in Brooklyn - based on imaginary (or real?) experiences. Even the dialogues seem to be "real" at times. So who got in the mood for a hypnotic walk through Brooklyn 1980? To a touch of Punk & New Wave? Please. Here.