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7.4/10   1,038 votes
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Director:
Aki Kaurismäki
Writers:
Aki Kaurismäki (writer)
Henri Murger (novel)
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Release Date:
29 July 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
Artists' life in Paris full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Spend a couple hours with some down-and-out artists in Paris more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Matti Pellonpää ... Rodolfo
Evelyne Didi ... Mimi
André Wilms ... Marcel
Kari Väänänen ... Schaunard
Christine Murillo ... Musette
Jean-Pierre Léaud ... Blancheron
Laika ... Baudelaire
Carlos Salgado ... Garcon de café
Alexis Nitzer ... Henri Bernard
Sylvie Van den Elsen ... Mme. Bernard
Gilles Charmant ... Groupe rock
Dominique Marcas ... Brocanteuse
Samuel Fuller ... Gassot
Jean-Paul Wenzel ... Francis

Louis Malle ... Gentleman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Boheemielämää (Finland)
Bohemernas liv (Sweden)
Bohemian Life
Vita da boheme (Italy)
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Runtime:
Germany:100 min | Sweden:103 min | USA:100 min
Language:
French
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Paris, France
Company:
Sputnik more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Neither Matti Pellonpää or Kari Väänänen could speak any french in real life. The script contained instructions how to pronounce the lines. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in L.A. Without a Map (1998) more
Soundtrack:
Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Spend a couple hours with some down-and-out artists in Paris, 23 July 2002
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Author: KFL from Bloomington, IN

A French playwright, an Albanian painter, and an Irish composer, all living hand-to-mouth in Paris, devise various schemes to secure their next meal, or cheat the landlord, or help each other out of jams. Cynically witty and poignant by turns, La Vie de Boheme somehow manages to simultaneously embellish and skewer the old cliche about starving artists on the Left Bank.

This might almost be the film to show your son or daughter when they have declared that they want to become a novelist or painter and move to an exotic locale--except that, who knows, it might have the opposite of the intended effect.

I liked it quite a bit. Watch for the performance by the Irishman of his own piano piece for his friends, toward the end: hilarious!

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