La Vie de Bohème

1992 103 min ★ 7.5 Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Cast

Matti Pellonpää

Rodolfo

Evelyne Didi

Mimi

André Wilms

Marcel

Kari Väänänen

Schaunard

Christine Murillo

Musette

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Blancheron

Carlos Salgado

Waiter

Alexis Nitzer

Henri Bernard

Sylvie Van Den Elsen

Mrs. Bernard

Gilles Charmant

Hugo / Rock Group

Details

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Screenplay

Aki Kaurismäki

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Production

Sputnik, Pyramide Productions, Films A2, Svenska Filminstitutet, Pandora Film

Reviews

C

CRCulver

August 14, 2018

★ 6/10

Aki Kaurismaki’s <i>La Vie de Bohème</i> 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 ...