A Time of Roses
Ruusujen aika
2012: Raimo Lappalainen is wary of his society, which believes in science as the answer to everything, even the imponderables of history. He begins to investigate the life of a certain Saara who died in the mid-1970s in a car accident and who’d made a living from appearing in films and on stage, sometimes dressed and often not. He finds a girl called Kisse to play Saara – this, as everybody knows who’s ever read Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte (1892)
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 1969
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 108"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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