What a beautiful movie!

Good idea lost in the noise

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Celebration for unacting! If you like movies where less is saying more - this is your movie. The wonderful positive attitude of people in difficult situations is something to learn from. Kati Outinen is great - again. She suits this movie perfectly. Kari Väänänen as her husband is the perfect Finnish hard working man whose life isn't a struggle but an art-form it self. Also Markku Peltola as a cook gives once again a memorable performance. The music moves the scenes into another level. Finnish melancholic tango in this environment makes almost a conflict between the things happening in the screen and the music. What a wonderful tribute to Matti Pellonpää.

This is a very interesting film, the complete opposite of the glamour of hollywood. It is very slow, but I was never bored, and the lack of sentimentality is very refreshing.If you ever get the opportunity, do sit down and take the time to watch it.

I saw Drifting Clouds at a film festival, and I was truly blown away by the intense and true-to-life emotions this movie portrayed. Formerly being a Hollywood-action film kind of a guy, seeing Drifting Clouds has made me more open to artistic and especially foreign films. Director Kaurismaki is in my opinion one of the best directors in the world.

The British film-maker Ken Loach manages to produce profound and uplifting films on the rather grim subject of poor people trying to cope with the nightmare that is modern urban capitalism ('My Name is Joe', 'Ladybird, Ladybird', 'Carla's Song'). Yet 'Drifting Clouds', which offers a Finnish version of the same old themes (poverty, unemployment, mindless sex, optimism in the face of repeated failure), makes me realise how truly boring an evening in a dark room in front of a flickering screen can be. This movie is dull, and two years later I have still not fully forgiven the person who persuaded me to go and see it. As I am married to her, this lack of forgiveness creates considerable problems every time she tries to take me to the movies. It's about a couple who both lose their jobs. That's more or less it, apart from the 'happy' ending. View at your peril.