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Dominican Rep. The Match Factory Girl
- Original title
- Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (The Match Factory Girl)
- Year
- 1990
- Running time
- 69 min.
- Country
Finland- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Finland-Sweden;
- Genre
- Drama | Psychological Drama
- Movie Groups
- The Proletariat Trilogy
- Synopsis
- This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "proletarian trilogy" (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). Iris works on a factory assembly line and lives with her unloving mother and stepfather in a tiny apartment where she has a roof over her head, but little more. She comes home from work, turns over her wages, cooks dinner, cleans, and sleeps on the sofa. Looking for affection, she frequents a dance hall, where she meets and spends the night with an apparently successful middle-class man. But the hook-up means little to the man, and has disastrous consequences. Rejected and dejected, her life in disarray, Iris sets out to get revenge on those who have hurt her.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1992: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film1990: European Film Awards: Nominated for Best Movie1992: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Foreign Language Film.
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