Drifting Clouds

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Movie Info

Sudden unemployment tests a couple's (Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen) marriage, pride and resourcefulness.

Genre:

drama, comedy
Original Language:

Finnish
Director:

Aki Kaurismäki
Producer:

Aki Kaurismäki
Runtime:

1h 36m
Production Co:

Sputnik Oy
Sound Mix:

Dolby
Aspect Ratio:

Flat (1.85:1)

Cast & Crew

Kati Outinen
Ilona

Kari Väänänen
Lauri

Elina Salo
Rouva Sjöholm (Mrs. Sjöholm)

Sakari Kuosmanen
Melartin

Matti Onnismaa
Forsström

Markku Peltola
Lajunen

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Critic Reviews for Drifting Clouds

[Kaurismaki] distinctive, austerely hip, deadpan bleak viewpoint is back again in "Drifting Clouds."

February 4, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
In 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.

May 23, 2003

Mark Jenkins
Washington Post
True to his temperament, Kaurismaki has made another funny-sad movie about the tenuousness of life, in all its ambiguity and nonsensical symmetry.

May 23, 2003 | Full Review…

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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April 12, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Globe and Mail
Kaurismaki has enormous love for these characters. He embraces their comic pathos, and rejoices that they do not surrender.

November 13, 2001 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
What can be said about Drifting Clouds can be said about hangdog Finnish humor in general: it's making the best of a depressing situation.

November 13, 2001 | Rating: 2/4

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
Nokia, Finlandia Vodka, and Aki Kaurismki. Three exceptional Finnish exports of particular interest. ?Drifting Clouds blossoms.

May 30, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Elias Savada
Nitrate Online
The film builds to a happier mood than many of the director's previous works; offbeat, droll twists and details add to its appeal.

June 5, 2002 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Ed Scheid
Boxoffice Magazine
A film touched by the absurd and the hopeful.

November 13, 2001 | Rating: 3/5

Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
One of the funniest and most humane movies of recent note.

November 13, 2001 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Jason Anderson
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Audience Reviews for Drifting Clouds

Apr 23, 2011

Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki, and the first in a loose trilogy with THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST and LIGHTS IN THE DUSK. Filmed in a strangely timeless manner and funny in a very underplayed way, this is about a couple trying to make the best of a bad job when they both lose theirs. Glum.

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