Drifting Clouds

Drifting Clouds

  • Director: Aki Kaurismäki
  • Countries of origin: Finland, Germany, France
  • Language: Finnish, Swedish, English
  • Release date: July 10, 1998
  • Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Far Away the Clouds Escape
  • Kauas pilvet karkaavat is a comedy film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Otinen and Kari Vananen.
    The film tells the story of Aina and Kerry's family in crisis when the economic crisis comes.

    Details

    • Release date July 10, 1998
    • Filming locations Punavuori, Helsinki, Finland
    • Production companies Sputnik, Yleisradio (YLE), Pandora Filmproduktion

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    Budget

    FIM 5,562,154 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Deshaun 2022-12-30 12:15:54

      The world is like a floating cloud, do it and cherish it

      The bad luck of a good person makes people pity, and the bad guy makes a fool to make people laugh. This is a wonderful sentence in a film review, which reveals the laws of human nature and the techniques commonly used in films.

      One of the great sufferings of life is poverty. Not only are they poor, they are also unemployed, and the two fathers have lost their jobs one after another, cutting off their source of livelihood. Not only are they unemployed, but they can't find a job....

    • By Astrid 2022-12-26 23:38:10

      The beauty of life is that all good and bad are warm in the end!

      Floating Clouds (1996) The most beautiful thing about the movie is its free, elegant and charming music, which forms a very sharp contrast with the bottom, kind, taciturn, frustrated characters and their living conditions. They are opposites but subtly merge. This is a miracle ! If you define a personality for Aki's films, I think it is both realistic and warm. He embraces infinite ordinaryness and frustration with infinite warmth. In the movie, no matter how big the...

    • By Francis 2022-12-21 19:11:56

      Life wasn't a prostitution

      I don't mean to offend the animation, but I really hope that the children who are fans of comics will not indulge in the hot-blooded comics, thinking that success only needs to be hot-blooded enough. Or, think that adults only follow the trend and have a mid-life crisis.

      Not unexpected at all, the story is as anyone who knows the economic crisis knows, the screenwriter makes Kerry and Aina face unemployment...

    • By Samara 2022-12-13 07:49:14

      Little People's Song

      It's a movie that fits my current mood very well, so I watched it as an inspirational movie (don't laugh). Fortunately, the director gave a bright ending, otherwise I might have been disappointed for a while. This also shows how meticulously and realistically the film captures the unemployed life of this ordinary couple, how they fell into predicament step by step, and how they slowly swam out of the water without giving up, trying to find a place to breathe. The world is difficult, but as...

    • By Monique 2022-12-02 08:38:31

      Floating clouds and world affairs, the hard life of little people

      It is true that the core of comedy is tragedy, especially the work of Finnish film master Aki Kaurismaki. The little people he portrays always arouse the audience's empathy, and this time the story tells about the re-employment of an unemployed couple. Such a simple and a little boring story, no matter where you look at it, it has nothing to do with comedy, but under the clouds and world events, life is full of different situations, and the ups and downs of small people...

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    • By Ayden 2023-09-13 20:17:40

      Still simple narrative, cold and suffocating long mirror. I like the 2 oil paintings on the wall, except that the film music, which has become part of the narrative style of Archie's film, is as good as...

    • By Kristoffer 2023-08-27 22:18:17

      Archie's is really well done, with a perfect balance of style, plot and emotion. With his rather Bresson-mixed Ozu-esque minimalism, Suffering effectively avoids sensationalism, but the text's profound exposure to the structure of social violence precisely makes the characters sympathetic. Although the solution to the conflict is not without a sense of serenity, it is also an expression of "the proletariat unites" (the new restaurant is called "Työ/work"), and the trade union is responsible for...

    • By Alisa 2023-08-27 03:23:55

      A high-welfare country is also not sunny, and you may accidentally find yourself in a dark and cold corner where the sun cannot be...

    • By Erna 2023-08-08 17:54:03

      #filmarchive# The cold air is infiltrating little by little, and the little people are warming up little by little. Aki's compassionate heart makes people look...

    • By Stephan 2023-07-31 08:28:50

      Difficulties arise, steadfast love, and the bouquet of flowers he brought reminds me of Fassbender's "Ich will doch nur, das ihr mich liebt". Unexpectedly, I cried even more in this one. Difficult to...

    Movie plot

    Aina (played by Kati Outinen) and Kerry (played by Kari Väänänen) are a very close couple, one of them is a restaurant manager and the other is a tram driver. It's tight," but it's clear that the future of the two is full of light and hope.
    The arrival of the economic crisis put Aina and Kerry's family in crisis. The restaurant where Aina was working went bankrupt and Kerry unfortunately won the lottery in the company's "layoff...
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    Movie quotes

    • Man of Olympia: [after Lauri has recovered from beating] You start distantly reminding a human being.

    • Melartin: Let's take the whole bottle, it's cheaper

    • Mrs. Sjöholm: When I was young I drunk many men under the table.