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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   1,813 votes
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Director:
Aki Kaurismäki
Writer:
Aki Kaurismäki (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
6 November 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy more
Plot:
Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster... more | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Shadows In Paradise Ariel The Match Factory Girl
 (From The AV Club. 28 October 2008, 9:01 PM, PDT)

On DVD: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, "Shadow"
 (From IFC. 23 September 2008, 11:36 AM, PDT)

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The Irony of Silence in a Noisy World more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Kati Outinen ... Iiris
Elina Salo ... Mother
Esko Nikkari ... Stepfather
Vesa Vierikko ... Aarne
Reijo Taipale ... The singer
Silu Seppälä ... Iiris' brother
Outi Mäenpää ... Iiris' co-worker
Marja Packalén ... The doctor
Richard Reitinger ... Man in the bar
Helka Viljanen ... Office employee (as Helga Viljanen)
Kurt Siilas ... Policeman
Ismo Keinänen ... Policeman
Klaus Heydemann ... Worker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erkki Friman ... Member of dance band
Tapani Ikonen ... Member of dance band
Jari Lappalainen ... Member of dance band
Lasse Luoto ... Member of dance band
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Flickan från tändsticksfabriken (Sweden)
The Match Factory Girl (USA)
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Runtime:
68 min
Country:
Finland | Sweden
Language:
Finnish
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Helsinki, Finland
Company:
Esselte Video more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
[first lines]
Iiris: Half pint, please!
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Movie Connections:
Features Room Service (1938) more
Soundtrack:
I'm Gonna Get High more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
The Irony of Silence in a Noisy World, 15 July 2003
8/10
Author: bluesdoctor from A Place is Just A Place

Only the story is allowed to tell itself: A classic tale of a woman wronged told straight as can be, without the least adornment, comedy, or any other form of commentary from the film maker. The film begins with several minutes of pure images, no dialogue, and when words are in fact first spoken, they're almost painful. Kati Outinen, Kaurismäki's constant leading lady, looks even more forlorn than usual, her face swollen, her upper lip red and eyes bleary, as if she just finished crying. Salt of the earth, her one break from an otherwise bleak and desolate existence, a brief affair with a callous man of higher social status, ends badly. Events proceed with clocklike fatalism, a simplicity and inevitability that recall a Broadside ballad, a primeval tale.

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