Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö / Match Factory Girl

Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (The Match Factory Girl) (1990) - Aki Kaurismäki



Runtime: 68 min
Language: Finnish With Hardcoded English Sub
Country: Finland | Sweden
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)

Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
1990 Won Interfilm Award Forum of New Cinema Aki Kaurismäki
OCIC Award - Honorable Mention Forum of New Cinema Aki Kaurismäki

European Film Awards
1990 Nominated European Film Award Best Film Aki Kaurismäki

Jussi Awards
1991 Won Jussi Best Actress (Paras naispääosa)Kati Outinen
Best Direction (Paras ohjaus)Aki Kaurismäki
Best Supporting Actor (Paras miessivuosa)Esko Nikkari
Best Supporting Actress (Paras naissivuosa)Elina Salo


Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast:
Kati Outinen ... Iiris
Elina Salo ... Mother
Esko Nikkari ... Stepfather
Vesa Vierikko ... Aarne
Reijo Taipale ... The singer
Silu Seppälä ... Iiris' brother
Outi Mäenpää ... Iiris' co-worker
Marja Packalén ... The doctor
Richard Reitinger ... Man in the bar
Helka Viljanen ... Office employee (as Helga Viljanen)
Kurt Siilas ... Policeman
Ismo Keinänen ... Policeman
Klaus Heydemann ... Worker

Description:
Amid the mechanical din of the automated assembly line is the quiet despair of a lost soul. Her name is Iris (Kati Outinen), a dour, impassive young woman who oversees the labeling of matchbox packages. She performs her task with silent, methodical precision: removing duplicates, moistening unaffixed labels, tamping down curled edges. Riding home on a public bus, her time is spent reading vacuous romance novels. Her home life provides little comfort to her overwhelming sense of loneliness - her mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkar) sit transfixed in front of the television until she calls them to dinner, where table conversation proves to be equally nonexistent. After finishing her chores, Iris changes into her best clothes and goes to the local dance hall. The perennial wallflower, she patiently sits as the ladies around her are asked to dance, while she attempts to occupy her time by sipping beverages and listening to sentimental love songs. And so the sad ritual of Iris' alienated life progresses until one day when she impulsively decides to spend her wages on a red dress. Punished by her parents for squandering the rent money, Iris is ordered to return the dress, but instead, goes to a nightclub where she catches the eye of a reticent man named Arne (Vesa Vierikko). But as the camera captures alternating glances of Arne's abstracted composure and Iris' enraptured euphoria, it is evident that their union is not the great, consuming love that she longs for. When Arne's repeated attempts at severing their relationship become too blatant to ignore, Iris' desperation takes hold.

Aki Kaurismäki creates a wickedly incisive and fascinating dark comedy in The Match Factory Girl. In characterizing the unremarkable protagonist, Iris, with an inexpressive, Bressonian demeanor, Kaurismäki reflects the sustained, dispassionate cynicism and alienation of contemporary society. Furthermore, the pervasive silence, emotional callousness, and physical isolation reflect the innate loneliness and dehumanization of the soul. Inevitably, unable to find connection in her cruel life, Iris lashes out at her oppressive environment with the same familiar detachment that has sustained her through disillusionment, abuse, humiliation, and heartbreak, and in the process, destroys all that is left of her dignity and humanity.

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