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Bohemian Life

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Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpää), an Albanian refugee and painter; Marcel (André Wilms), a playwright; and Schaunard (Kari Väänänen), an avant-garde composer, become friends and allies in contemporary Paris. They maintain a genteel manner of relating to one another while constantly scrambling for money and risking starvation. After falling in love with a barmaid (Evelyne Didi), Rodolfo is deported. When he succeeds in re-entering the country, he and his friends try to revive their friendship.
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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 11/12/2020
4/5
There's a feeling of effortless magic as the film flows through the various foibles of this trio of struggling artists that aren't very artistic. Go to Full Review Christopher Long Movie Metropolis 01/29/2014
8/10
The kind of pocket universe you'd love to slip into for a summer or two, as long as you could stage a strategic exit before the food runs out. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/03/2005
4/5
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Dani G 07/08/2024 Don't you feel like the french movies of Kaurismaki are not like the finnish ones? It's like the same, but not. Although this one in particular does feel a little more close to that than Le Havre, maybe because he brought more of his actors, and the thematic of course See more 07/23/2015 One of my favorites! See more 07/25/2014 "I've been summoned by Gassot, the newspaper czar. He's founding a fashion magazine, 'The Sash of Iris', and plans to make me editor-in-chief. If I show up in this getup, he may change his mind." "You can't accept his offer anyway. Gassot is a supporter of the right. Your principles won't allow you to eat bread bathed in the sweat of the people." "You're mistaken. He's in the left flank of the right wing in Parliament. Just yesterday he voted for widows' pensions. Besides, he knows influential people whom I'll convince to commission compositions from you and portraits from Rodolfo." "That changes everything." If there's a better movie about bohemians (declassed intellectuals), then I don't know of it. And surely there is none funnier. (But also, of course, beautiful, and sad.) See more 07/31/2013 We need a US format DVD over here everybody!!! See more 03/28/2013 Existentialism is just the topping of this pessimistic, black-and-white cake. Kaurismäki knows that the genre of the source material he adapted is <u>drama</u>, but when did some splashes of humor hurt anyone, especially if you have a very rich character development justifying your directorial plot management? Even if that was not enough, we are offered two sides of a tragedy: the one that comes from the ingratitude towards art when such profession is your profession, and the one that comes with the package called <i>life</i>. Whereas I agree that art in general is a greatly underappreciated profession, <i>La Vie de Bohème</i> suggests between lines that the true art in this life is the art of living and facing such aforementioned tragedies. 97/100 See more 02/21/2012 Hieno tunnelma. Pellonpää puhuu hyvin ranskaa... See more Read all reviews
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Aki Kaurismäki

Director

Matti Pellonpää

Rodolfo

Evelyne Didi

Mimi

André Wilms

Marcel

Kari Väänänen

Schaunard

Christine Murillo

Musette
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Synopsis Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpää), an Albanian refugee and painter; Marcel (André Wilms), a playwright; and Schaunard (Kari Väänänen), an avant-garde composer, become friends and allies in contemporary Paris. They maintain a genteel manner of relating to one another while constantly scrambling for money and risking starvation. After falling in love with a barmaid (Evelyne Didi), Rodolfo is deported. When he succeeds in re-entering the country, he and his friends try to revive their friendship.
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Producer
Aki Kaurismäki, Klaus Heydemann
Screenwriter
Aki Kaurismäki, Henri Murger
Production Co
Pandora Filmproduktion, Sputnik Oy, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Films A2, Sofinergie 2, Canal+, Pyramide Productions, Svenska Filminstitutet
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 28, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m
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