starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo
written by: Aki Kaurismäki, Henri Murger (novel)
directed by: Aki Kaurismäki
produced by: Sputnik Oy
cinematography by: Timo Salminen
duration: 98 minutes
type: black & white
certification: 15
country: France / Italy / Sweden / Finland
year: 1992

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. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, a barmaid. The day he asks her to move in with him, he is deported. Six months later, he sneaks back to Paris, and Mimi leaves her new boyfriend to be with him. Conflicts arise, especially around their poverty, and soon Mimi and Rodolfo separate, as do Marcel and his Musette. The three men scrape together a meal to celebrate All Saints' Day, and Mimi arrives, ill. Can her friends bring her back to health? Can love be rekindled?

Filmed on location in Paris.

In French with English subtitles.

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Henri Murgerin romaaniin ”Scènes de la vie de bohème” perustuva melankolinen komedia kolmen taiteilijan boheemielämästä Pariisissa. Rodolfo on albanialainen pakolainen ja suuri maalari, Marcel suuri ranskalainen runoilija ja Schaunard suuri irlantilainen säveltäjä. Heidän virtuoosimaiseen päivästä toiseen selviytymiseensä tuo uuden hohteen kaksi maalaiskaunotarta, Mimi ja Musette. Elokuvan lopun sentimentaalisuuden vuoksi kehotamme mahdollisia naiskatsojia varautumaan nenäliinoin.