The Match Factory Girl (1990)
(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.
(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.