Bohemian Life
Boheemielämää
Aki Kaurismäki
An author in need of an editor, Marcel Marx is evicted. He meets Rodolfo, a penniless Albanian painter, and Shaunard, an Irish composer. The three men quickly become inseparable and decide to share their misery and their love of the arts.
With : Matti Pellonpää, André Wilms, Evelyne Didi, Kari Väänanen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Paul Wenzel, Louis Malle, André Penvern, Alexis Nitzer, Gilles Charmant
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki d'après "Scènes de la vie de bohème" d'Henry Murger
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Jouko Lumme, Timo Linnasalo
Editing : Veikko Aaltonen
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki d'après "Scènes de la vie de bohème" d'Henry Murger
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Jouko Lumme, Timo Linnasalo
Editing : Veikko Aaltonen
Production : Sputnik Oy, Pyramide Films, Films A2, The Swedish Film Institute, Pandora Films
Distribution: Pyramide
Distribution: Pyramide
"By adapting Henry Murger's novel, Kaurismäki wanted to make a "poor quality film that would upset the masses" to push them out of spite towards the original text, which has otherwise been forgotten next to the success of Puccini's opera. (...) Kaurismäki adapts the novel by simplifying Murger's plot and creating a melodrama to his tastes, less pathetic and emptied of its most tearful and pathos-filled elements. (...) In Bohemian Life, comedy brushes away the handkerchiefs, with a humour fashioned from impertinent jests and straight-faced quips." (C.J. Philippe) "In their own way, all of my characters are artists of dignity. In Bohemian Life, none of my heroes agrees to sell his art, or his soul. They all refuse Faust's pact. It's their way of surviving." (A. Kaurismäki)