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The Match Factory Girl

1990, 1h 9min

Iris 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 and stepfather. One weekend, wearing her new red dress at a local dance, she ends up going home with Aarne, whom she mistakenly believes is her new boyfriend. When she discovers that she's pregnant, years of pent-up rage explode in a shocking outburst.

"The Match Factory Girl" — drama and comedy movie produced in Sweden and Finland and released in 1990. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.5 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 9min. "The Match Factory Girl" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: Finland, Sweden

Director:

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast:

Outi Mäenpää,

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Critic Robyn Karney

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8

This gritty chronicle of despair, seasoned with subtle ironies and unfolded with the matter-of-factness of a Grimm's fairy tale, is thoroughly absorbing.

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