About this title: This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La Bohème and was made by the noted Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki. Like the opera, it is based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. Despite their ever-present poverty, which poses a constant threat to their continued existence, the artists and their friends in this movie speak in only the most polite, elegant, and genteel manner, which only serves to underscore their desperate situation. In the story, the poet Marcel has been unable to come up ...
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Format: VHS
Date: October 13, 1997
UPC:720917011271
Description: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo. Good in fair packaging. Run time: 100 mins. Originally released: 1992. Ex-rental in plain black hard case. Original box, cut and flattened, will be included with order. Side label on tape is handwritten and there are three small store labels on the tape. read more
Format: VHS
Studio: Fox Lorber. Orion
Date: 1994
UPC:720917011271
Description: Starring Matti Pellonpaa, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Vaananen, Christine Murillo, Laika. Originally released: 1993. Run time: 100 minutes. Black & white. In French with English subtitles. Based on the same novel by Henri Murger (1822-61) on which Puccini created his famous opera, but this is a starkly different interpretation, although it still follows the hapless lives of three comrades who have to scrounge because their art is not filling their stomachs. read more
Description: Gilles Charmant, Kenneth Colley, Evelyne Didi, Philippe Dormoy, Samuel Fuller, Laika, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Louis Malle. Very good in good packaging. 1992 Run time: 100. /aka/ Bohemian Life. read more
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