'Drifting Clouds'
Kauas pilvet karkaavat

Available on DVD

Finland 1996 colour 96min Sputnik Oy

***½

Comedy

cast: Kari Väänänen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen, Markku Peltola
credits: dir., prod., edit. and script Aki Kaurismäki, DOP Timo Salminen

The life is hard. Depression, grey sky. But then everything starts to smile - thanks for the restaurant Työ (work in English).

The cast is good. Actor Matti Pellonpää died before the filming, so Kari Väänänen shared his role with Ms. Outinen in this movie. Kati Outinen does her work very sensitively. The jokes are witty as always in Kaurismäki's movies.

TRIVIA: The photo on the desk in the film's house, that's actor Matti Pellonpää as baby.
TRIVIA#2: The famous Finnish movie critic and historian Peter von Bagh has a cameo role as a customer in the restaurant.

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