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Drifting Clouds
Drama - 1996
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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:
,
Aki Kaurismäki
Cast:
,
Sakari Kuosmanen
,
Kati Outinen
,
Markku Peltola
,
Elina Salo
,
Matti Onnismaa
,
Kari Väänänen
,
Markus Allan
,
Pauli Granfelt
,
Kari Lindqvist
,
Shelley Fisher

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Details

Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
26 Jan 1996
Country:
FI, FR, DE
Languages:
Finnish, Swedish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
10 wins & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

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,
23 May 2003
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,
23 May 2003
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,
13 Nov 2001
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,
13 Nov 2001
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