La Vie de Bohème (French title)
Bohemian Life
Boheemielämää (Bohemliv/ Bohemernas liv)
La vida de bohemia (Spanish title)
Vita da bohème (Italian title)
Das Leben der Bohème (German title)

Finland/France 1992 B/W 100min Sputnik Oy, Pyramide Production S.A., Svenska Filminstitutet

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Comedy

cast: Matti Pellonpää (Rodolfo), Evelyne Didi (Mimi), André Wilms (Marcel Marx), Kari Väänänen (Schaunard), Christine Murillo (Musette), Jean-Pierre Léaud, Samuel Fuller, Louis Malle, Anssi Tikanmäki
credits: dir. Aki Kaurismäki (also script and prod.), music Mauri Sumén, DOP Timo Salminen

A story about poor artists who try to be understood and loved. One of them falls in love but another one seduces his lady. Well, the world is full of women.

This is a wonderful piece of art. The story is loaned from Henri Murger's novel. It fits perefectly in black and white. There's more talk than in Kaurismäki movie usually is but in this case it doesn't make the movie look or sound bad. There's also some absolutely crazy scenes which make just anybody laugh. Simply one of Aki Kaurismäki's best movies. The movie is in French.

TRIVIA: Matti Pellonpää played an Albanian in this film, because only then his bad French didn't matter so much.

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