Iris is a lonely young woman, living with her parents and working at the match factory. She lives an ordinary life and craves for something more. She goes to the dance hall, yet nobody invites her on the ring. She goes to the bars by her self. She goes to the movies and cries. When she buys a new dress, her parents, which usually snatch all her money for rent, call her a whore and demand that she returns the dress.

This is the first moment, 20 minutes in to the film, when a character says something. And the rest of the movie goes on in this fashion, probably gathering in total no more than one page of dialogue. It is this form, one of patient and distant regard, that makes The Match Factory Girl such an exciting and absorbing piece of movie making.

Iris is a lonely young woman, living with her parents and working at the match factory. She lives an ordinary life and craves for something more. She goes to the dance hall, yet nobody invites her on the ring. She goes to the bars by her self. She goes to the movies and cries. When she buys a new dress, her parents, which usually snatch all her money for rent, call her a whore and demand that she returns the dress.

This is the first moment, 20 minutes in to the film, when a character says something. And the rest of the movie goes on in this fashion, probably gathering in total no more than one page of dialogue. It is this form, one of patient and distant regard, that makes The Match Factory Girl such an exciting and absorbing piece of movie making.

When a bearded, rich and selfish guy appears in the story, Iris sleeps with him and this twists the story in great satisfactory ways. Very static and hyper ludic.