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A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
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"A riveting early masterpiece by Aki Kaurismaki. Kati Outinen is extraordinary as Iris, the long-faced factory worker of the title, who lives with her truly appalling parents in (probably) Helsinki. She cooks the meals and does all the housework, while they completely ignore her, preferring to watch TV and drink. Iris buys a dress and goes to a party - everybody ignores her there as well, and her scandalised mother forces her to take the dress back to the shop. A middle-class man picks her up in a bar and sleeps with her, and then leaves the next morning. She informs him that she's pr..."
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The third installment of Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, after "Varjoja paratiisissa" (Shadows in Paradise (1986)) and Ariel (1988). Over 30 years later, "Kuolleet lehdet" (Fallen Leaves (2023)) became the fourth one in the "trilogy."
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A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.