Conversation so far:
Can you tell me a little about the first features and rise to fame?
Permanent Vacation and Stranger than Paradise?
Jarmusch's final year university project was completed in 1980 as Permanent Vacation, his first feature film.
How did well did critics like this first feature film?
did not attract the sort of adulation from critics that greeted his later work.
What are some important aspects of this feature film?
The 75 minute quasi-autobiographical feature follows an adolescent drifter (Chris Parker) as he wanders around downtown Manhattan.

Question: Did this film finally attract other critics?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Permanent Vacation finally attract other critics?