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THE EXPERIENCE

Join us for our SPECIAL GUEST STARS series where some of our favorite Tomorrow Theater guests curate special screening series just for our audience! Art and Labor (Julio’s favorite movies about getting lost in the job) they have curated: Sorry to Bother You, The Match Factory Girl, Being There and The 40 Year Old Version. Join us for this special limited series with a video intro by Julio Torres!

ON SCREEN: The Match Factory Girl 

1990. Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Runtime: 1hr 10min. Not Rated.

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.

The Match Factory Girl (Finnish: Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö) is a 1990 Finnish-Swedish film edited, written, co-produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, the final installment of his Proletariat Trilogy, after his Shadows in Paradise and Ariel. It follows Iris, a young, plain-looking factory worker living a lonely, impoverished and uneventful life in late 1980s Finland. Iris is played by Kati Outinen, who had appeared in a number of other Kaurismäki films.

The Match Factory Girl has often been considered one of the most esteemed Finnish movies. It was tied for “best Finnish movie” in a polling of film critics in 1992.

GUEST CURATOR: Julio Torres

Julio Torres is a Brooklyn-based comedian, writer, and filmmaker. He was an Emmy-nominated and WGA-winning writer for Saturday Night Live, and his work on SNL has received much acclaim from The New York Times, Vulture, Vanity Fair, and more. Julio has guest starred on HBO’s High Maintenance, Search Party (Max), Shrill (Hulu), and the film Together Together with Ed Helms and Patti Harrison. He has also performed stand-up on Late Night With Seth Meyers as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 2017, Julio headlined his first solo hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, My Favorite Shapes: By Julio Torres, to rave reviews. My Favorite Shapes became an hour-long HBO comedy special in 2019 produced by Lorne Michaels and A24. Julio starred in the HBO series Los Espookys, which he co-created with Fred Armisen and Ana Fabrega. Los Espookys subsequently garnered a Peabody Award for 2023 Entertainment and a GLAAD award for Outstanding Spanish-Language Scripted Television Series in 2023 and was named one of New York Times “Best Shows of 2022.” Julio’s next television show, Fantasmas premiered in June 2024 on HBO to critical acclaim. On the feature side, his directorial debut Problemista, which he wrote and stars in alongside Tilda Swinton, premiered earlier this year with A24 and Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree Films producing. Julio’s first book, I Want To Be A Vase was also recently released through Simon & Schuster’s Atrium Books. TIME Magazine recently named Julio a 2023 TIME100 Next Artist.