Time of Roses

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Jarva, Risto, 1934-1977, director.

Deaf Crocodile Films, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 min.)

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California Deaf Crocodile 2023

Summary:

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 in a VERTIGO-like twist, convinces 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 and abstract political conversations and semi-orgies (all waving hands and sitar music!) would have delighted both Andy Warhol and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Long unavailable, the marvelous TIME OF ROSES has been newly-scanned from the original 35mm camera negative for this restoration by Deaf Crocodile, in collaboration with the Risto Jarva Association and KAVI - Finnish National Audiovisual Institute

Credits:

Risto Jarva, director

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1395478546

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license