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The Match Factory Girl (1990)

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(Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö)


Country: FIN/SV
Technical: col 69m
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko

Synopsis:

A factory worker lives with and provides for her mother and stepfather but dreams of having a love of her own. However, her first experience proves a bitter one, and leads her to extreme measures.

Review:

The director's doleful universe is at its most laconic and pessimistic in this characteristically pared back narrative. Music plays a key role as usual, as if he were a Finnish Almodóvar, and it remains a pleasure to watch the story unfold, however slow or depressing. The matches reappear throughout, like a talisman, and it is as if the factory were a metaphor for the girl's lot at the hands of the other characters: a dehumanising conveyor of a life whose potential is to be used once, then discarded.

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(Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö)


Country: FIN/SV
Technical: col 69m
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko

Synopsis:

A factory worker lives with and provides for her mother and stepfather but dreams of having a love of her own. However, her first experience proves a bitter one, and leads her to extreme measures.

Review:

The director's doleful universe is at its most laconic and pessimistic in this characteristically pared back narrative. Music plays a key role as usual, as if he were a Finnish Almodóvar, and it remains a pleasure to watch the story unfold, however slow or depressing. The matches reappear throughout, like a talisman, and it is as if the factory were a metaphor for the girl's lot at the hands of the other characters: a dehumanising conveyor of a life whose potential is to be used once, then discarded.

(Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö)


Country: FIN/SV
Technical: col 69m
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko

Synopsis:

A factory worker lives with and provides for her mother and stepfather but dreams of having a love of her own. However, her first experience proves a bitter one, and leads her to extreme measures.

Review:

The director's doleful universe is at its most laconic and pessimistic in this characteristically pared back narrative. Music plays a key role as usual, as if he were a Finnish Almodóvar, and it remains a pleasure to watch the story unfold, however slow or depressing. The matches reappear throughout, like a talisman, and it is as if the factory were a metaphor for the girl's lot at the hands of the other characters: a dehumanising conveyor of a life whose potential is to be used once, then discarded.

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