The Match Factory Girl (1990)

Original title

Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö

Directed by

Aki Kaurismäki

Genre

comedy drama, art film

Country

Sweden, Finland

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 295 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shy and plain match factory worker leads a dreary, isolated life in 1980s Finland. After a brief romance ends in betrayal, she takes a decisive and dark turn.

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What happens

The Match Factory Girl (Finnish: Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö) is a 1990 Finnish-Swedish film edited, written, co-produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, the final installment of his Proletariat Trilogy, after his Shadows in Paradise and Ariel. It follows Iris, a young, plain-looking factory worker living a lonely, impoverished and uneventful life in late 1980s Finland. Iris is played by Kati Outinen, who had appeared in a number of other Kaurismäki films. The Match Factory Girl has often been considered one of the most esteemed Finnish movies. It was tied for "best Finnish movie" in a polling of film critics in 1992. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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