La Vie de Bohème
TITLE
La Vie de Bohème
DIRECTOR
Aki Kaurismäki
COUNTRY
Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
YEAR
1992
DURATION
100′
GENRE
Comedy, Drama, Romance
La Vie de Bohème
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.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 1980s, though Aki's work has found more favour abroad. His films are very short (he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer 70), eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around '50s rock'n'roll. In the 1990s he has made films in Britain (I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)) and France (The Bohemian Life (1992)).
- Director Aki Kaurismäki
- Screenplay Henri Murger, Aki Kaurismäki
- Cinematography Timo Salminen
- Editing Veikko Aaltonen
- Cast Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen
- Producer/s Aki Kaurismäki
- Production Company Sputnik, Pandora Filmproduktion
- Distributor/s The Match Factory, Finnkino
- Project Title La Vie de Bohème
- Project Type Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Completion Date July 29, 1993
- Country of origin Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
- Country of filming France
- Language French, English
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 1980s, though Aki's work has found more favour abroad. His films are very short (he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer 70), eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around '50s rock'n'roll. In the 1990s he has made films in Britain (I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)) and France (The Bohemian Life (1992)).
Berlin International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize, 1992
European Film Awards
European Actor of the Year, European Supporting Actor of the Year, 1992
Jussi Awards
Best Direction, 1993
Tirana International Film Festival
Special Screening, 2022
