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Bookmark this pageLa Vie de Bohème (1991)
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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From Time Out Film Guide
British audiences have thus far shown stoic indifference to the work of Finnish fashion victim Kaurismäki, and this straight-faced adaptation of Henri Murger's melodramatic novel (1851) is unlikely to quicken their pulses. A polyglot cast (most of them long-haired Finns) enact the depressed lives of failed artists and their consumptive muse Mimi in fractured French, spurred on by names from the director's address-book and a dog named Baudelaire. The one-note joke palls fast, and Kaurismäki's endless quest for emotional truth at the heart of miserabilist clichés winds up in its usual cul-de-sac.Author: TR
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- peter said...
- Posted on Jan 31 2008 08:15 This is a charming film, and one of my favourite films by this director.
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Cast & crew
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Producer: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Samuel Fuller, Louis Malle full cast
Duration: 100 mins
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