Word: outinen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MATCH FACTORY GIRL, a comedy so dark that some viewers take it for tragedy. This sly parable starts with a brisk documentary on the transformation of a stick of wood in a box of matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom rat poison may be the best antidote. And for U.S. viewers, Match Factory is a splendid introduction to a world...
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