Release Date: January 21, 2014
Purchase: Amazon
France, Finland
1992
103 minutes
Black and White
1.85:1
French
Purchase: Amazon
France, Finland
1992
103 minutes
Black and White
1.85:1
French
This deadpan tragicomedy about a group of impoverished, outcast artists living the bohemian life in Paris is among the most beguiling films by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki. Based on stories from Henri Murger’s influential mid nineteenth-century book Scènes de la vie de bohème (the basis for the opera La bohème), the film features a marvelous trio of Kaurismäki regulars, André Wilms, Matti Pellonpää, and Karl Väänänen, as a poet, painter, and composer who scrape by together, sharing in life’s daily absurdities. Gorgeously shot in black and white, La vie de bohème is a vibrantly scrappy rendition of a beloved tale.
Disc Features:
- New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Where Is Musette?, an hour-long documentary on the making of the film
- New interview with actor André Wilms
- Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante
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