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The Match Factory Girl (Finnish: Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö) is a 1990 Finnish/Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki.
- Kati Outinen as Iiris
- Elina Salo as Mother
- Esko Nikkari as Stepfather
- Vesa Vierikko as Aarne
- Reijo Taipale as The singer
- Silu Seppälä as Iiris' brother
- Outi Mäenpää as Iiris' co-worker
- Marja Packalén as The doctor
- Richard Reitinger as Man in the bar
- Helka Viljanen as Office employee
- Kurt Siilas as Policeman
- Ismo Keinänen as Policeman
- Klaus Heydemann as Worker
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It is often mentioned how the opening sequence to The Match Factory Girl bears a striking similarity to the opening sequence of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: a close up of a large log being cut and stripped in a mill - though in Lynch's case it is a saw mill and in Kaurismäki's a match-factory. Kaurismäki's film was made at the same time as Lynch's TV series (1990), so the similarities are simply coincidence. However, it is interesting to compare them: the music-less neo-realism of Kaurismäki's vision versus the romantic synthesizer-strings music yet almost surreal vision of Lynch.
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