Kati Outinen
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A 1990 Finnish-Swedish film by Aki Kaurismäki about a lonely and impoverished factory worker who faces rejection, humiliation and tragedy. The film is the final installment of his Proletariat Trilogy and has been praised as one of the most esteemed Finnish movies.
The Match Factory Girl: Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. With Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko. A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- (12K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Aki Kaurismäki
- 1992-11-06
Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo ...
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- Kati Outinen
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Finnkino Oy
“The Match Factory Girl” is the third film in Kaurismaki’s Proletariat Trilogy. It follows “Shadows in Paradise,” about a aimless garbage collector and “Ariel” (1988), about a coal miner who escapes his subterranean work by turning to crime.
Iris, a factory worker and a neglected daughter, commits a crime of passion in this bleak yet hilarious film by the Finnish director. The Match Factory Girl is the last part of his Proletariat Trilogy, which explores the lives of the working class with humor and humanity.
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In this icily funny revenge tale, Kati Outinen ( THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST) 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.
Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who...
