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A Time of Roses

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Finnish director Risto Jarva's fascinating, futuristic, sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors, and inflatable furniture where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN'S RUN. A historian of late 20th Century culture -- "before class boundaries were abolished" -- named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death of a free-spirited erotic model from that period named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. Raimo finds Saara's identical double -- an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) -- and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara's life and death for TV.

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Soham Gadre Film Inquiry Jun 25, 2023
Time of Roses has a keen eye for design and tells a prescient tale of the lie that hides within “The End of History”. Go to Full Review Lee Jutton Film Inquiry Apr 22, 2023
Intriguing despite its imperfections, Time of Roses is a journey through time and space worth taking. Go to Full Review Kathy Fennessy Seattle Film Blog Apr 6, 2023
3/4
One of the more imaginative, low-budget science fiction features of the 1960s. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Risto Jarva

Director

Arto Tuominen

Raimo Lappalainen

Ritva Vepsä

Saara Turunen

Tarja Markus

Anu Huotari

Eero Keskitalo

Raimo's Colleague

Kalle Holmberg

Kisse's Colleague
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Synopsis Finnish director Risto Jarva's fascinating, futuristic, sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors, and inflatable furniture where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN'S RUN. A historian of late 20th Century culture -- "before class boundaries were abolished" -- named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death of a free-spirited erotic model from that period named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. Raimo finds Saara's identical double -- an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) -- and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara's life and death for TV.
Director
Risto Jarva
Producer
Risto Jarva
Screenwriter
Risto Jarva, Jaakko Pakkasvirta, Peter von Bagh
Distributor
Cinema Dimensions
Production Co
Filminor
Genre
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Finnish
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 19, 1970, Limited
Runtime
1h 46m
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