Directed by:
Aki KaurismäkiScreenplay:
Aki KaurismäkiCinematography:
Timo SalminenCast:
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Serge Reggiani, Nicky Tesco, Charles Cork, Angela Walsh, Michael O'Hagan, Walter Sparrow, Tony Rohr (more)Plots(1)
Iris (Outinen) works a dreary job as a quality control inspector in a match factory. Her stifling home life isn't much better - she rents a room from her morally strict mother and stepfather and has little in the way of a social life. The monotony of it all comes to an abrupt end when she becomes pregnant by a white collar worker she meets at a local nightclub. Rejected by her lover and kicked out of her mother's house, Iris buys a box of rat poison and sets her mind on revenge. (official distributor synopsis)
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Gil Mehmert
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