La Vie de Bohème
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Finland, France, Sweden · 1992
1h 43m
Director Aki Kaurismäki
Starring Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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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. This minimalist deadpan tragicomedy about three starving artists is one of Kaurismäki’s best films.
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