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.

Time.of.Roses.1969.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 45 min
Size: 	2.51 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1010x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.215
Audio
#1:  	Finnish 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Main Audio)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by film critic, professor and programmer Olaf Möller)

https://nitro.download/view/BA9FC638B76AC30/A.Time.of.Roses.1969.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Finnish, English
Subtitles:English

The post Risto Jarva – Ruusujen aika AKA A Time of Roses (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis: Taking place in the year 2012, the film is a fantasy of a “utopian” time when all class conflicts have been erased, at least superficially. A history researcher Raimo Lappalainen becomes obsessed by the life of nude model Saara Turunen, a woman who died in 1976, and tries to reconstruct it for TV, with help from an actress. At the same time a strike in a nuclear plant will lead to a violent upsurge, which media only manages to keep secret from public with a clever cover-up.

Trivia

– Ruusujen aika (“A Time of Roses”, 1969) is a rare example of Finnish science fiction cinema. The others were Aurinkotuuli by Timo Linnasalo (1980), Mika Kaurismäki’s Mad Max variation The Last Border (1993) and Jari Halonen’s Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma (late 1990s).
– Originally the film was supposed to be filmed in colour and Cinemascope format, but due to the financial and technical problems this didn’t happen.
– The script is influenced by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo on which Peter von Bagh, one of the screenwriters, was writing his graduate thesis.
– The scene with the strike at a nuclear plant and the leader of strike (Kalle Holmberg) shot dead in front of TV cameras was filmed in the same day in August 1968 as Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Union troops.
– In the film, the future of the year 2012 has electronic newspapers. One of them, Uusi Suomi (ironically, in real life that newspaper went bankrupt in the 1980’s) has as its logo the upside down, split-in-the-middle “Y” symbol of the 1960’s peace movement!
– The most popular disco dance of 2012 — danced with sensual movements to the experimental electronic-sounding music — is called “pyllymylly” (free translation: “booty mill”).
– Erkki Kurenniemi, A Finnish tech whiz known for his ground-breaking electronic instruments and compositions, provided electronic sounds for this film.
– The use of mood-enhancing pills as means of maintaining the control of society is normal in the future of the film, made 25 years before the Prozac boom (though this idea can be found as early as 1930’s, with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World).
– Pekka Streng, the late Finnish folk/psychedelia artist appears as one of the extras of this film.
– For international distribution, a 20 minutes shorter version was cut, with a special introductory sequence.
– Actress Ritva Vepsä received Silver Asteroid award for the film at The Trieste Festival Of Science Fiction Films in 1969, and the film also won Special Prize at the same festival.
– The director Risto Jarva died in a car accident in 1977. Saara, the obsession of the protagonist Raimo Lappalainen (Arto Tuominen), had similar fate, according to the film, only one year earlier, 1976.

1.58GB | 1h 46m | 694×484 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BB10E131CF1F355/A.Time.of.Roses.1969.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Finnish
Subtitles:English

The post Risto Jarva – Ruusujen aika AKA A Time of Roses (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.