Match Factory Girl
Sep 25, 2005
(Aki Kaurismaki, Finland/Sweden, 1989, 35mm, 68min.)
Print courtesy of Kino International.
This film hits two birds with one stone for ol' NWFF. It was first shown as part of our Seattle-appropriate 2001 Festival of Depression series and our massive and wildly popular fourteen film 2004 Aki Kaurismaki retrospective.
A mousy factory girl's tragic and sad life gets worse and worse until revenge is her only hope. The muted brutality is woven with tense absurdity and repressed, stone-faced hilarity for a deadpan masterpiece.