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Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (1990)
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Writer:
Aki Kaurismäki (writer)
Release Date:
6 November 1992 (USA)
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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...
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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)
(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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Life will never seem as bad again
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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 | |
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| 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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68 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Features Room Service (1938)
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Call Your Lawyer
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Kaurismaki is nothing if not an efficient director. The stylistic elements of 'The Match Factory Girl' are distilled, like the vodka that is drunk throughout, to produce an intense and disturbing effect. Much of the action goes on outside the characteristically static camera frame, and Kati Outinen's deadpan face conveys a correspondingly broad range of expressions (she is excellent at signalling imminent vomiting without appearing to twitch a muscle). It's a film that moves on and out with the minimum of movement and dialogue, and its downwards pull is mesmerising. It's also bitterly funny. Late in the film the main character, Iris, approaches the shop counter and asks for a bottle of rat poison, to which the reply is: 'Small or large?'
I was fairly low when I saw this film. I came out feeling marvellous. Another triumph for the relief to be found in misery, a paradox which Kaurismaki cheerfully exploits in his dark, tragic & hilarious films.