A Time of Roses

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1969 108 mins

In Finnish with English subtitles

Rated
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Risto Jarva
Peter von Bagh, Risto Jarva, Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Arto Tuominen, Ritva Vepsä, Tarja Markus

Programmed and Presented by Stephanie Sack

Attendees of the Time of Roses matinee will enjoy an introduction and post-screening discussion from independent film programmer Stephanie Sack, and can purchase local art inspired by the film's visuals and themes by award-winning painter Amanda "Freya" Johanson. 

Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture - “before class boundaries were abolished” – named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. (She caused a public scandal by asking three of her wealthy, powerful lovers to pay for an abortion). Raimo finds Saara’s identical double – an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) -- and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara’s life and death for TV. Director Jarva was one of Finland’s most acclaimed fiction filmmakers and documentarians before he was tragically killed in an auto accident returning from a screening in 1977. His fabulously quirky vision of Future World, with its fragmented & abstract political conversation and semi-orgies (all waving hands and sitar music!) would have delighted both Andy Warhol and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

1969
Finland
Finnish
English
108 mins

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