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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. 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 ...
In The Match Factory Girl, Kaurismäki uses stylistic and narrative conventions, a premeditated and recurrent organisation of events, and arranges them into repeated and motivated patterns of variations that include central identifiable markers of his narrative logic and permanent choices. Melodrama plays with silent, understated patterns.
The Match Factory Girl. Details: 1990, Rest of the world, Cert 15, 70 mins. Direction: Aki Kaurismaki. User reviews Read user reviews. Today's best video The week in TV.
THE MATCH FACTORY at Berlinale 2023. 73. Berlinale 2023. We are very pleased to have a formidable seven films at this year's 73rd Berlinale, with four German titles in Competition. COMPETITION: AFIRE, by Christian Petzold. INGEBORG BACHMANN - JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT, by Margarethe von Trotta.
Aug 4, 2022 · An essay on the film The Match Factory Girl
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Later, I named this piece of junk »The Match Factory Girl«, as the name is long enough to be easily forgotten. (Aki Kaurismäki) »The Match Factory Girl« is an astonishingly stylish work. It proves that simplicity is best, both morally and stylistically. The narrative style is severely ascetic.
May 1, 2019 · Aki Kaurismäki’s THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL Wednesday, May 1 3:35, 9:10 Tuesday, May 7 9:20 (1990) “A masterwork” (Los Angeles Times). In this icily funny revenge tale, Kati Outinen is memorably opaque as Iris, whose grinding days as a drone at a matchstick factory, and nights as a neglected single daughter living with her parents, ultimately send her over the edge.
