Word: rodolfos
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...Boheme" is set in the Quartier Latin of nineteenth-century Paris. Mimi, a sweet soul doomed to an untimely death, falls in love at first sight with her neighbor Rodolfo, member of a lovable band of starving artists. Their love affair, made torrid by Rodolfo's jealousy, is mirrored by a no less tumultuous relationship between Marcello the painter and the fiercely independent Musetta...
...reading period were a time to study, then even a week would be great," adds Rodolfo J. Paiz '95. "But since reading period is a time when they give you essays, problem sets and classes, there is no time to study...
...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...
...film's rather homely Mimi (Evelyne Didi) isn't the fragile beauty of Puccini's opera, but she turns out to be just as consumptive. Her romance with Rodolfo is halfhearted; in a movie preoccupied with hunger, the couple's appetite for each other is depressingly dull. Musette (Christine Murillo) is so marginal to the film's action as to be an extra...
Despite fundamental plot weaknesses, the film is visually stunning, and, more than the absurdity, this is its saving grace. It is not really about the tragic love of Rodolfo and Mimi, or even about the life of dissolute artists. The film's only true heroine is Paris, the gritty, alienating city of the post-war years. To achieve this quality of romantic seediness, Kaurismaki fled the Left Bank for the working-class suburbs of Malakoff and Ivry-sur-Seine...