the film suffocates gently. still lifes of empty rooms. the clack-clack-clack of factory labor. a television murmuring about disasters that feel like they belong to another planet. this is the weather of Iris's gray, repetitive and unremarkable life.
Kati Outinen plays her as a woman who has forgotten she is allowed to want things. her face is a closed door. when the world kicks her, and it repeatedly does, she does not flinch. she has been trained to expect nothing else.
Kaurismäki finds a deadpan comedy in all this, though you won't laugh. the joke is too sad.
a small, devastating film about the weight of being treated like nothing and the terrible lightness of becoming nothing back.
the film suffocates gently. still lifes of empty rooms. the clack-clack-clack of factory labor. a television murmuring about disasters that feel like they belong to another planet. this is the weather of Iris's gray, repetitive and unremarkable life.
Kati Outinen plays her as a woman who has forgotten she is allowed to want things. her face is a closed door. when the world kicks her, and it repeatedly does, she does not flinch. she has been trained to expect nothing else.
Kaurismäki finds a deadpan comedy in all this, though you won't laugh. the joke is too sad.
a small, devastating film about the weight of being treated like nothing and the terrible lightness of becoming nothing back.
