The Match Factory Girl
Dramahelsinki, finlandfactory workermatchisolationparent child relationshippoisonmonotonymurderloneliness
A bleak, intimate portrait of a marginalized woman's descent from loneliness into calculated revenge, suffused with existential despair and the monotony of a life without agency.
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.
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