Saturday, October 26 4:30PM (26M4)/ 9:30PM (26M8) MONICA DRIFTING CLOUDS (Finland, 1996 96 min.) There's something at once familiar and unconventional about Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds. For those who've savored the flying Finn's oeuvre (Match Factory Girl , La Vie de Boheme), his new outing reiterates a deadpan fatalism that's oddly compelling yet essentially unthreatening. Ilona and Lauri believe there is order in life and that hard work pays off with dividends. Fate, however, deals a much stronger hand. Kaurismaki remains the most Dickensian of contemporary filmmakers in his facility to weave rigid, logical tales that are absorbing entertainments with a wicked, humorous underbelly. Leonard Klady,Variety. CRITIC'S CHOICE: LEONARD KLADY CALENDAR | VENUES | TICKETS