Word: mattie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protagonists of Murger's novel are flamboyant, young artists, but the 150 years since its publication have not been kind to these bohemians. Kaurismaki makes them too scruffy to be dashing and too old, it seems, to be passionate. Inexplicably, Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpaa) has been made an illegal immigrant from Albania (perhaps this detail is meant to account for his occasionally irritating accent). All three artists seem to have given up the struggle to attain fame and wealth about 10 years ago. For most of the film, they can barely manage the energy to light a cigarette...
...thinks her driver (Winona Ryder) could be a star; the Brooklyn bro (Giancarlo Esposito) who bonds with his German-born cabbie (Armin Mueller-Stahl); the blind Parisian (Beatrice Dalle) who, sigh, sees life more clearly than the African (Isaach De Bankole) in the front seat; the Finnish depressive (Matti Pellonpaa) who relates a you-think-you-got-troubles saga -- these are shaggy- dog stories without a tail. Or, really, a tale...