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27/02/1992 Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 43m
75
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Overview

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

  1. Aki Kaurismäki

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Matti Pellonpää

    Rodolfo

  2. Evelyne Didi

    Mimi

  3. André Wilms

    Marcel

  4. Kari Väänänen

    Schaunard

  5. Christine Murillo

    Musette

  6. Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Blancheron

  7. Carlos Salgado

    Waiter

  8. Alexis Nitzer

    Henri Bernard

  9. Sylvie Van Den Elsen

    Mrs. Bernard

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver
Written by CRCulver on 2018-08-14
Aki Kaurismaki’s La Vie de Bohème is the Finnish auteur's loose adaptation of Henri Murger's classic 19th-century collection of short stories, set in contemporary Paris with an eclectic cast of French and Finnish actors, all speaking French. As the film opens, the penniless aspiring writer Marcel (André Wilms) is being evicted from his apartment. Though a series of amusing events, he falls in with the equally aspiring and penniless painter Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpää) and composer Schaunard (Kari Väänänen). The film then tracks their comical struggles to make money, gain lasting f...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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