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Harvard Film Archive. Aki Kaurismaki's "La Vie de Boheme," an iconoclastic take on the novel which inspired Puccini, at 7 and 9 p.m. Carpenter Center...
directed by Aki Kaurismaki...
...could be forgiven for thinking that "La Vie de Boheme," the latest film from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, is a cinematic adaptation of Puccini's opera of almost the same name. The confusion shouldn't last long, though. The film's first scene cuts from a rooftop panorama of Paris to a shot of the starving writer Marcel (Andre Wilms) digging through a pile of trash, muttering "merde...
FINLAND'S MOST DISTINGUISHED WRITER-director is named Aki Kaurismaki. That statement is true and probably funny -- like his THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL, a comedy so dark that some viewers take it for tragedy. This sly parable starts with a brisk documentary on the transformation of a stick of wood in a box of matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom...
Some designees reacted to the praise withgreater detachment. Aki R. Ibrahim, the manager ofthe recently re-opened Algiers Coffee House inBrattle Square, said he was "very pleased" but notat all surprised that his shop was named the "BestNew (Old) Cafe...