TIME OF ROSES (Blu-ray)

Finnish director Risto Jarvas 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 LOGANS 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 Veps) 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 Saaras identical double an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Veps) -- and tries to convince her to re-enact Saaras life and death for TV. Director Jarva was one of Finlands most acclaimed fiction filmmakers and documentarians before he was tragically killed in an auto accident returning from a scree