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      Bohemian Life

      1992 1h 40m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 86% Audience Score 500+ Ratings 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. Read More Read Less

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      Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Rated: 4.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 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. Rated: 4/5 Nov 12, 2020 Full Review Christopher Long Movie Metropolis 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. Rated: 8/10 Jan 29, 2014 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 4/5 Jul 3, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member One of my favorites! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member "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.) Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member We need a US format DVD over here everybody!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Hieno tunnelma. Pellonpää puhuu hyvin ranskaa... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Jos teos kestää hyvin aikaa ja jopa paranee vain, niin eiköhän kyseessä ole klassikko. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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
      Paula Oinonen, Francis Boespflug
      Screenwriter
      Aki Kaurismäki, Henri Murger
      Production Co
      Canal+, Films A2, Sofinergie 2, Pyramide Productions, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Sputnik Oy, Svenska Filminstitutet, Pandora Filmproduktion
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 28, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 40m
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