La Vie de Boheme. From: The Nation | Date: August 9, 1993| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1993 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

When I first ran across Aki Kaurismiiki's La Vie de Boheme, I thought it one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen. On second viewing, it turned out to be. one of the saddest.

Based on the novel by Henri Murger rather than on the later opera by Puccini, La Vie de Boheme reawakens the pang of the original, its desperate humor, by the eccentric strategy of denying all sentiment. It's as if Kaurismaki were a physical therapist who heightens your awareness of a limb by amputating it. The bohemian life is over, his movie seems to say. The setting is not the 1850s but present-day ...

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