Time of Roses
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£29.00
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.
| Format | |
| Format | Blu-Ray |
| Film | |
| Year | 1969 |
| Rating | 18 |
| Director | Risto Jarva |
| Starring | Arto Tuominen Ritva Vepsä Tarja Markus |
| Country | Finland |
| Label | Deaf Crocodile |
| Region / TV Standard | Code A |
| Language | Finnish |
| Subtitles | English SDH Subtitles |
| Running time | 105 mins |
| Aspect ratio | 1.75:1 |
| Case type | Standard with slipcover |
| Extra features | RISTO JARVA, TYÖTOVERINI (RISTO JARVA, MY COLLEAGUE), 1984, 59 min., dir. Antti Peippo – a rarely-seen Finnish TV documentary featuring archival interview footage of Jarva and clips from his films Two of Jarva’s brilliant, unconventional short films from the 1960s: his wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising, “Pakasteet” (Frozen Foods), 1969, 15 min. , and his Mod / Pop Art-influenced documentary “Computers Serve” (Tietokoneet palvelevat), 1968, 14 min.. (Both in Finnish with English subtitles.) Deleted scene and original song "The Swallow Tower" (Pääskytorni) performed by Otto Donner cut from TIME OF ROSES Original trailer New commentary by film critic, professor and programmer Olaf Möller New essay by filmmaker and critic Ville Suhonen of the Risto Jarva Association Newly translated extracts from Risto Jarva’s writings |
