Silu Seppälä

Liberally reinterpreting Sly Stallone’s inspiring underdog story, Aki Kaurismäki takes his typical deadpan humour to a whole other level with this exuberant 80s short-film satire. Relentless glam-rock guitar riffs soundtrack this pain-and-gain parody—outrageous, outlandish, and a little bit sad!

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster.