マッチ工場の少女
The Match Factory Girl
フィンランドの田舎町。マッチ工場で働いて稼いだ僅かな金で母と義父を養う少女イリス。ある日彼女は、もらったばかりの給料で自分のドレスを買ってしまう。 怒った義父は彼女を殴り、母はドレスの返品を命じる。とうとう我慢できなくなった彼女は、家を飛び出してディスコへ向かい、そこで出会った男性と一夜をともにする。しかし彼女は彼にも裏切られ……。監督は「レニングラード・カウボーイズ」シリーズのアキ・カウリスマキ。
With a cold gaze, this film piercingly depicts an unhappy young girl loved by no one, and it won numerous film awards. It is one of the representative works that made the name of the renowned Finnish director A. Kaurismäki widely known to the world. Following 'Shadows in Paradise' and 'Ariel,' it is the masterpiece that crowns the end of Kaurismäki's <Proletariat Trilogy>. The lead role is played by his familiar regular actress K. Outinen. Iris is a lonely girl who lives with her mother and stepfather in a room in an old apartment in a country town and works at a match factory. Leading a dull daily life at home and at work, one day she impulsively buys a dress with her wages. Beaten by her angry stepfather and ordered by her mother to return it, Iris runs away from home, dresses herself up desperately in the dress she bought, resolves herself and goes to a disco, and spends the night with a strange man who approaches her. Iris finally awakens to love, but the man coldly rejects her, saying he had only intended it as a one-night fling. After tasting disillusionment, she then...
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