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1992 film
La Vie de bohème
VHS cover
Directed byAki Kaurismäki
Screenplay byAki Kaurismäki
Based onScènes de la vie de bohème
by Henri Murger
Produced byAki Kaurismäki
Starring
CinematographyTimo Salminen
Edited byVeikko Aaltonen
Production
company
Sputnik
Distributed byFinnkino
Release dates
Running time103 minutes
Countries
  • Finland
  • France
  • Sweden
  • Germany
LanguageFrench

La Vie de bohème (or The Bohemian Life; Finnish: Boheemielämää) is a 1992 tragicomedy film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Matti Pellonpää, Évelyne Didi and André Wilms. Kaurismäki's screenplay for the film was loosely based on Henri Murger's influential 1851 novel Scènes de la vie de bohème which has spawned several on-screen adaptations as well as plays and operas, the most notable being Giacomo Puccini's 1896 La bohème.

The film was a critical success earning several awards. FIPRESCI awarded the film the Forum of New Cinema award at the 1992 Berlin International Film Festival. At the 1992 European Film Awards, Matti Pellonpää and André Wilms were awarded the Best European Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively while Évelyne Didi was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress and the film was nominated for the Best Film Award. Kaurismäki won the Best Director award at the 1993 Jussi Awards. Le Havre (2011) is a follow-up movie to La Vie de bohème having many of the same actors 19 years older.

Plot

Marcel is a Parisian poet and playwright who is evicted from his room after he is unable to pay the rent. While roaming the streets, he meets Rodolfo, a painter from Albania who is equally poor and is in the country illegally. They discover they share the same love for art without regard for worldly well-being. They make another friend in Schaunard, an Irish composer who is renting Marcel's former room. The three help each other survive by sharing the little money they obtain in order to maintain a standard of living.

Rodolfo meets Mimi, a poor French girl with whom he falls madly in love. However, he is deported back to Albania. He is unable to return to Paris for six months and, by then, Mimi has found another boyfriend. Rodolfo, Marcel and Schaunard scrape together their food and share a meal to celebrate the feast of All Saints. Mimi shows up and informs Rodolfo that she has left her boyfriend to be with him again, but she is ill and dies the next spring.

Cast

References

  1. Awards given to Aki Kaurismäki, Orimattila Town Library, March 6, 2008. Accessed February 24, 2009.

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Films directed by Aki Kaurismäki
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Henri Murger's Scenes of Bohemian Life
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