The Bohemian Life

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France / Germany / Sweden / Finland, 1992, 100 min

Directed by:

Aki Kaurismäki

Based on:

Henri Murger (book)

Screenplay:

Aki Kaurismäki

Cinematography:

Timo Salminen

Cast:

Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Carlos Salgado, Alexis Nitzer, Sylvie Van den Elsen (more)
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This deadpan tragicomedy about a group of impoverished, outcast artists living the bohemian life in Paris is among the most beguiling films by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. Based on stories from Henri Murger’s influential mid-nineteenth-century book "Scènes de la vie de bohème" (the basis for the opera La bohème), the film features a marvelous trio of Kaurismäki regulars - André Wilms, Matti Pellonpää, and Kari Väänänen - as a writer, painter, and composer who scrape by together, sharing in life’s daily absurdities. Gorgeously shot in black and white, La vie de bohème is a vibrantly scrappy rendition of a beloved tale. (Criterion)

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