Kaurismäki took his penchant for despairing character studies to unspeakably grim depths in the shockingly entertaining The Match Factory Girl. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother and stepfather. Child Labor: Match Girls. The Match Factory Girl Living an unhappy life with her mother (Elina Salo) and her stepfather (Esko Nikkari) and reading romantic literature in her free time, Iris (Kati Outinen) works in a match factory and dreams of finding great love. Kati Outinen is memorably impenetrable as Iris, whose grinding days as a cog in a factory wheel, and nights as a neglected daughter living with her parents, ultimately send her over the edge. She works a boring, mindless job on the assembly line of a match factory. As the long opening sequence of match factory machines suggests, her life is monotonous and uneventful. She goes to the nightclub and waits for someone to ask her to dance. Kati Outinen is memorably impenetrable as Iris, whose grinding days as a cog in a factory wheel, and nights as a neglected daughter living with her parents, ultimately send her over the edge. That does not mean she does not feel anything. Iris is a meek, mousy woman of maybe thirty years of age. During the Industrial Revolution, match girls were young girls (4-16 years old) that made matches. We are proud to announce that PATRICK by Gonçalo Waddington will have its premiere in the Official Selection at the San Sebastián International Film Festival 2019! A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution. “The Match Factory Girl” follows the story of Iiris (Kaurismäki regular Kati Outinen, simply amazing), a lonely “match factory girl” living in her small world. When she goes to a dance, nobody asks her for a dance until one night she meets a yuppiesh man named Aarne (Vesa Vierikko). The Match Factory Girl is a 1990 film from Finland directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. With Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko. They made them by dipping the ends of the match sticks into a harsh, toxic chemical called phosphorous.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki • 1990 • Finland, Sweden Kaurismäki took his penchant for despairing character studies to unspeakably grim depths in the shockingly entertaining The Match Factory Girl.
Movie: The Match Factory Girl (1990)[7974] Movie: The Match Factory Girl (1990)[7974] Iris has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. Moreover the movie will be joined by the following titles: Perlak: EMA by Pablo Larraín SO LONG, MY SON by … Match girl from the Industrial Revolution.
She comes home to her mother and stepfather's shabby little apartment, where she is expected to do the cooking and the dishwashing. THE MATCH FACTORY at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival 2019. She sleeps on a couch, and she pays them rent.