La Vie de Bohème

Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpää) is an Albanian painter in modern-day Paris with no visa and no money. He falls in with Marcel (André Wilms), a playwright with no publisher, and Schaunard (Kari Väänänen), a composer whose music is mostly noise. Aki Kaurismäki loosely follows Henri Murger's 1851 novel, shooting their threadbare Paris in deadpan black and white.