The Match Factory Girl
The Match Factory Girl Finnish Tulitikkutehtaan tytt is a 1990 FinnishSwedish film written and directed by Aki Kaurismki, the final installment from his Proletariat Trilogy, after his Shadows in Paradise and Ariel. It follows Iiris, a young, plainlooking factory worker living a lonely, impoverished and uneventful life in late 1980s Finland. Iiris is played by Kati Outinen, who had appeared in a number of other Kaurismki films.
The next night we see a more affectionate side of her mother, who helps Iiris get ready for her date. Iiriss date sits in another room with her stepfather. It is quiet and no one speaks even when Iiriss mother sits down and pours coffee, no one speaks. Next, Iiris and her date leave and he opens the car door for her. The scene cuts and they are seated at a restaurant table where he asks Iris how her food is and she replies that it is good. They sit together for a moment and the man tells Iiris there is no future between the two of them and she should leave, so she does. He seems relieved when she is gone.Some time passes and Iiris is at work, she becomes sick and throws up. The next scene is at a doctors office where she is told it is nothing bad, she is pregnant, Iiris takes it quietly and leaves the office. Later at work she tells a coworker on break smoking, who merely says, is that so, puts out her cigarette and leaves. Iiris decides to write a letter to the father of her unborn which says even though he wants nothing to do with her, that maybe this baby will be a good thing for him, and give him someone to love, and possibly in years to come he will maybe grow to love her. She waits for him at his work and when she sees him, gives him the letter and leaves. ........
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