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the finnish way...

posted 17 years ago by mediterrae
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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.

[–] mac_alain 15 years ago

. . . 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.!

Couldn't agree more. A very, very fine movie, this. Am shocked at the lack of feedback here though
I just love Kaurismäki

edit: Oh, and what a great performance by the always good Katie Outinen

[–] gnolti 14 years ago

Building what the OP says about Tulitikkutehtaan tytto as having certain basic ingredients necessary for a successful movie: I would call this an example of "essential" filmmaking, in that it is universal. The fact that it is virtually silent, with all of five minutes of dialogue total, enlarges its international reach.

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[–] PsychoDingo 10 years ago

El Dependiente! there's a good movie that hardly ever gets mentioned. I really like the feel and pace of that movie. the image of the patio and back of the house, looking from the yard, is burned into my mind for some reason

I didn't think of El Dependiente while watching The Match Factory Girl, but now that you mention it, I think they do have some things in common, particularly that they both have a lot of time spent by actors gazing silently

the two films have many differences, but there's a good chance people who enjoy The Match Factory Girl would enjoy El Dependiente. I think a lot of people would be bored by both, because they are based on feeling and emotion rather than plot and action

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