the finnish way...
I saw the movie today in a review in my city,Buenos Aires, and wanted to post here(can`t believe nobody did this before....)just to say how i enjoyed the movie,who cares if they almost never speak, when all of the characters are so perfectly created,acted and wonderfully directed.!
This movie has what i like to see and most of the times hard to find:basic shots,minimal argument and the simplest solution possible for a scene (ej.when Iris has the car accident,we only hear what happened,while the camera keeps showing the corner..i loved that!)
Maybe is truth that finnish people don't express their emotions or talk that much,but I can say something from here,we who are the opposite in that way, I remember a great movie from my country which has a lot of similarities in style with The Matches Factory... called El Dependiente,from one of our greatest directors ever,Leonardo Favio (hard to find in dvd,guess impossible,but you can read something about that movie right here)They have lots of things in common,and if you ever have the chance to see it,you'll arrive to the conclusion that maybe people aren't so different anyways,or,in a better case,that the greatest movies share a common language.