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In "Drifting Clouds," a woman loses her job at a bankrupt restaurant, her husband is laid off by the transport system, their TV is repossessed, she pays her savings to an employment agency for another job, she isn't paid, and when her husband tries to collect he gets beaten up.
''Drifting Clouds'' is the most recent film in this series, a sweeping history of Finnish cinema that includes 32 movies, most of which are having their American premieres.
Drifting Clouds is about some familiar Kaurismäki subjects: work, unemployment, and a small, self-run business. The main characters are a married couple, Ilona and Lauri, played by two of Kaurismäki’s doe-eyed, heavy-set, resolutely unglamorous regulars, Kati Outinen and Kari Väänänen.
Drifting Clouds. Sudden unemployment tests a couple's (Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen) marriage, pride and resourcefulness.
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- Kati Outinen
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Comedy, Drama
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Mar 13, 2017 · Remnants of some awful nightmare are still drifting across its mind. ‘There was something with barbed wire, and huge mushroom clouds. Oh well, it was just a bad dream.’
An early gem from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, Drifting Clouds is a deceptively simple story. The aftermath of job losses for wife Ilona (Kati Outinen) and husband Lauri (Kari Väänänen) holds a series of misfortunes, all of them tests to their marital bond.
Drifting Clouds is a smart satire about dreams passing by and the optimism which is everywhere - it just needs to be found. 3 out of 3 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?
