The Match Factory Girl
- Kati Outinen: Iris
- Elina Salo: Mother
- Esko Nikkari: stepfather
- Vesa Vierikko: Aarne
- Reijo Taipale: singer
- Silu Seppälä: Brother
The girl from the match factory ( original title: Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö ) is a Finnish-Swedish drama film by Aki Kaurismäki 's 1990 The movie was released in the same year the forum of the International Film Festival Berlin..
Action
The film begins with the peeling of logs, which are then cut into strips and then into strips. Many machines and a long ribbon are needed to the matches end up in the box. Everything is automatic, no man can be seen throughout the process until all of a sudden Iris comes up. Your task is to check the labels on the boxes.
Iris lives with her mother and stepfather. She prepares dinner. Silently they eat while running the news on television. Then she goes to a dance hall. While the other women are encouraged to dance around them, it remains alone. She goes home and makes her bed on the sofa.
The next day she walks through the cemetery, drinking a beer in a bar, taking care of the laundry of the family, ironed and - again not spoken to each other. Silently sitting mother and stepfather in front of the television, in the news program running.
Iris got paid their wages. On the way she finds a dress on in a shop window. She buys it. The pay packet is checked by her mother. You noticed the missing amount and shows the stepfather the remaining money. The Iris missed a slap, she calls whore. The mother demands that she return the dress.
Packaged with the dress in a box goes Iris out of the house. In a public bathroom she moves around and goes to the disco. There she meets Aarne know and spends the night with him in his elegant apartment. The next morning he goes out of the house when she was still sleeping. On the bedside table he left money for them. She leaves it, but writes him her phone number on a block.
From her brother, who works as a cook, she borrows the money for the dress. It puts her mother on the table. The following day she waits in vain for a call from Aarne. On her birthday she gets from mother a book given that it lies immediately to the other from the same row on the shelf.
Having looked and cried an old Hollywood movie in the cinema, they will ring when Aarne. This rejects her, but promises to lead them out the next day. Silently sitting mother, stepfather and Aarne with coffee and pastries while getting ready makes iris. In a posh restaurant Aarne then makes her realize that she meant nothing to him and to go away.
When Iris learns that she is pregnant, she Aarne writes a desperate letter, but also expresses the hope that everything could be good. But from him she only gets an envelope with a check and the call to abort. It runs with rigid views of the street, then you hear a screeching braking car.
Because of the accident she lost the child. In the hospital she also learns of her stepfather, that they must find a new place to live. The mother no longer wants to have in the apartment. Iris moves to her release to her brother.
In a pharmacy buys rat poison. Brings you Aarne back his check and pours him the poison unnoticed into his drink. Aarne drink this glass after it has already left the apartment. A man who plump hitched up in a club at her, she also fills rat poison in his drink. After that Iris in the Botanical Gardens. There she sees the flower of a cactus. It is the Queen of the Night, which blooms only once a year at night for a few hours. Finally, she goes to visit the mother and stepfather. There she fills the poison into the liquor bottle standing on the table to eat. After she has taken a look into the kitchen, where the two took their meal, she leaves the house.
Finally, Iris is arrested and led away at work in the match factory by two policemen.
Background
Movie Start
The girl from the match factory began on 20 September 1990 in the German cinemas.
Stylistic devices
The film comes out with very little dialogue. The first words are - apart from the newscaster on TV - after thirteen minutes from Iris: " A small beer. "
"If you think, that would be something lasting between us, then you're wrong. There is nothing that could touch me less than your affection. It would be best, you disappear now, "is one of the longest dialogue points in the film, spoken by Aarne, as he does with Iris conclusion.
The film foregoing a classic film music. It hits and rock songs are played rather. Often the source of music is seen in the picture. In the apartment of his brother Iris starts the number Cadillac of "The Renegades " on the jukebox.
Criticism
" Concentrated and formally consistently developed film against the backdrop of a bleak subscribed Finnish reality that reflects with laconic language of film and bitter humor, the impossibility of a fulfilled life in the face of unloving environment."
"Within an hour runtime Aki Kaurismäki developed here a abysmal - bleak, bitter Wicked modern fairytale about a despairing of loneliness and repression protagonist of the working class, which is a dense lesson on the lostness of human existence and on the art of his oppressive intensity visualization focused filmmaking equally represents. "
" In this story Kaurismäki drives the aesthetic of frugality to the extreme. The film is all substance, without digressions and breaks. Every picture tells the essentials. Iris, the girl from the match factory, seeks happiness and finds the cold of the people. At the end she poisons her parents and her seducer, to quench their pain. This is the act desperately poor and how the movie, infinitely rich. In Kaurismäki himself gets the hollow kitsch of pop music his promise of happiness back, and the ugly Helsinki is a magical place. "
Awards
Spectacle
On June 2, 2013 was the staging of the film by David Boesch at the Schauspielhaus Bochum Premiere.
- Cast: Maja Beckmann (Iris ), Daniel Stock ( Aarne / Simo ), Anne Knaak ( mother of Iris ), Matthias Redlhammer (man )
- Director: David Boesch
- Stage: Franziska Gebhardt
- Costume Designer: Anna Maria Schories
- Light: Denny Klein
- Dramaturgy: Sabine Reich