The Match Factory Girl
Drama
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
VIBE
A stark, almost dreamlike descent into the crushing monotony of factory life. It's a quiet, unsettling journey of a woman pushed to her limits, finding a strange, dark catharsis in unexpected places.
bleakmelancholicunsettlingdarkly comedicsteadyarthousesocial realismminimalistoffbeatisolationrevengemonotonyclass struggle
helsinki, finlandfactory workermatchisolationparent child relationshippoisonmonotonymurderloneliness
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