A writer, a painter and musician meet by chance and necessity, unreliable tenants who come and go, customers who share a brotherly flat brewery. Their bohemian life of the bitter price to pay to live in accord with what they are: lack of money and even when it's there, hard currency, it foreshadowed the precariousness of those who spend without organization or sense of priorities in the service of a good life does not ephemeral basics of survival. But what interest would there be to eat to survive, to stay warm for a body? Bohemian life shatters the lives seeming obviousness rows to excess it replaces the stability and comfort insecurity and indifference. If there is food it must be beautiful, she should not have the modesty of the compromise or the sadness of poverty, and this aesthetic requirement is also that of Kaurismaki's films is that it looks nice animated engravings, a recount that is not so much failure that way, not like another being. Most emerges when physical structures queens decline: the strange friendship of three artists, their natural support and love Mimi, confusing love and filthy that is savored and understood precisely this deprivation.
The bohemian life is silent or does not propose any model: there is no genius in the paintings of lines or the writer, there has basically no reason to admire their dedication bounded artists, it's their freedom we speak Kaurismaki, a bittersweet freedom in which man does not forget himself.