Fresh
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.
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
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Drifting Clouds
Overview
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
Director and cast
- Aki Kaurismäki Director
- Kati Outinen as Ilona
- Kari Väänänen as Lauri
- Elina Salo as Mrs. Sjöholm
- Sakari Kuosmanen as Melartin
- Markku Peltola as Lajunen
- Matti Onnismaa as Forsström
- Shelley Fisher as Pianist
- Markus Allan as Orchestra Member
- Pauli Granfelt as Orchestra Member
- Kari Lindqvist as Orchestra Member
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
True to his temperament, Kaurismaki has made another funny-sad movie about the tenuousness of life, in all its ambiguity and nonsensical symmetry.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh
Kaurismaki has enormous love for these characters. He embraces their comic pathos, and rejoices that they do not surrender.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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