Drifting Clouds
Drifting Clouds

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Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare system, they strive to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and clumsy, one disaster is followed by the next.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Drifting Clouds:

Kati Outinen
Kari Väänänen
Elina Salo
Sakari Kuosmanen
Markku Peltola
Matti Onnismaa

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Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare system, they strive to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and clumsy, one disaster is followed by the next.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertKaurismaki has enormous love for these characters. He embraces their comic pathos, and rejoices that they do not surrender.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumWhat can be said about Drifting Clouds can be said about hangdog Finnish humor in general: it's making the best of a depressing situation.
Jam! Movies - 8/10 by Liz BraunA film touched by the absurd and the hopeful.
Washington Post - 7/10 by Mark JenkinsIn addition to achieving a paradoxical balance of mirth and melancholy, Drifting Clouds is a dark, mostly interior movie with a color scheme as big as all outdoors.
Nitrate Online - 6/10 by Elias SavadaNokia, Finlandia Vodka, and Aki Kaurismäki. Three exceptional Finnish exports of particular interest. ?Drifting Clouds blossoms.
User Review - 10/10 by Tophee Csimple idea, simple direction, but such a impressive result. all you have to do is feel the air and the atmosphere of the movie, it's all there
User Review - 10/10 by Mathyou COzu + Bresson + Beer + Rock and Roll = Aki Kaurismäki
User Review - 10/10 by Petter WEn av mina absoluta Kaurismäkifavoriter!
User Review - 10/10 by Piritta KEn av mina absoluta Kaurismäkifavoriter!
User Review - 10/10 by Kyle GInto a swanky restaurant called Dubrovnik, we get a sumptuous jazz intro that we find out is just the work of the piano bar. Ilona (Kati Outinen) is the hostess of the place. She handily disarms a suddenly vengeful chef, takes care of business, and returns home to an adoring husband Lauri (Kari Väänänen) who's bought a TV on credit for their modest Helsinki apartment. But soon, they're both loosed into a frightening world of unemployment. Ilona's restaurant is bought out by a bigger company, and the only other job she can find is under a tax-evading creep. Lauri is laid off from his job as a tram driver based on a literal card draw. He loses his license, the TV, everything, and ends up beaten up on a dock alone. They'll have to pick themselves up, get back together, and start a new life. DRIFTING CLOUDS is Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki's 1996 effort, and it's like a crisper and more perfectly-married THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: a cute, jazz-accented dramedy about young love. The music in Kaurismäki's film isn't entirely hammering rockabilly punk like his 1994 TATIANA (by Veikko Tuomi); but two years later, in a more mature and laid-back story, the songs are more mature and laid-back themselves (by Timo Salminen)... folk, especially the wistful Antero Jakoila performance synchronized to the restaurant's farewell night, and touches of jazz. Salminen is normally a cinematographer, so his artistic turn to music supervisor here is all the more interesting. There are some assorted rich details in the script -- alcohol, executions, crossword puzzles, dry irony -- that are each pretty powerful, and some rich color in general. The whole film has a way with soft and easy touches in a tight story, to create a drama about industry, resources, chutzpah that in turn can make, from the ashes of Dubrovnik, a place your very own called Work.

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