Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 69 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Finnish
- Country
- Finland, Sweden
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Finnish — subtitles on.
The story
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
- helsinki
- finland
- factory worker
- match
- isolation
- parent child relationship
- poison
- monotony
- murder
- loneliness
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Reijo Taipale — Singer
- Silu Seppälä — Brother
- Outi Mäenpää — Co-Worker
- Marja Packalén — Doctor
- Richard Reitinger — Man in Bar
- Helka Viljanen — Clerk
- Kurt Siilas — Police Officer
- Ismo Keinänen — Police Officer
- Klaus Heydemann — Worker
- Erkki Friman — Accordionist
- Tapani Ikonen — Drummer
- Directed
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Written
- Aki Kaurismäki
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 296 ratings
- Studio
- Villealfa Filmproductions, Svenska Filminstitutet, Finnkino
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
