Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Finland, Germany, Sweden
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
- friendship
- homeless person
- paris
- france
- composer
- painter
- playwright
- bohemian
- eviction
- struggling artist
- penniless
The bill
- Christine Murillo — Musette
- Jean-Pierre Léaud — Blancheron
- Carlos Salgado — Waiter
- Alexis Nitzer — Henri Bernard
- Sylvie Van Den Elsen — Mrs. Bernard
- Gilles Charmant — Hugo / Rock Group
- Dominique Marcas — Shop Owner
- Samuel Fuller — Gassot
- Jean-Paul Wenzel — Francis
- Louis Malle — Gentleman
- André Penvern — Police Inspector
- Directed
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Written
- Aki Kaurismäki
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 151 ratings
- Studio
- Sputnik, Pyramide Productions, Films A2, Svenska Filminstitutet, Pandora Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
