Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari
Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who thought sh...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008
Stats: 77 reviews
Kaurismaki's perfection of the 90's.Outinen is a goddess,convincing me that acting is silence,a soundproof collision merged into shattering pieces.Those pieces glued in the trembling-vengeful heart of Iris.Aye,and hard laboring.
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,...( read more)
Triste, tendre, grinçant et finalement un peu de repit quand ca se termine...
What a moody piece of film. I had to laugh a lot of times but yet, it is really bleak. It has a simpler tone compared to Ariel but yet, it portrays a lot like a dirty laundry type of documentary, displaying for the world to see how basic abuse is and contrasting that with the pol...( read more)
when i begun to search about Kaourismaki , there was not material here , except some people like me ...
the others people and i , must feel some proud ,cause we "recovered" these brothers again
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