It’s not every director who gets to turn Cate Blanchett down. Rarer still for a first-time filmmaker from Europe whose arty, offbeat debut — a poetic, surreal, soulful meditation on memory and grie…
, “Fingernails” imagines an alternate reality set in a not-too-distant, analog past where a cutting-edge machine can accurately determine whether a couple is in love. Resembling a first-gen microwave more than a sophisticated piece of advanced technology, the machine spits out results after studying the composition of the subjects’ fingernails, which have been pried off by researchers at the Love Institute where much of the film takes place.
“Fingernails” features some of the same preoccupations of Nikou’s arresting, surprising debut. “Apples,” presciently and eerily released during the first coronavirus summer, is also set in a world not unlike our own — sans cell phones and other modern gadgets — and takes place during a mysterious pandemic that causes widespread amnesia.
The director — who cites Charlie Kaufman as a major influence and describes “The Truman Show” as “the best movie ever made” — says he’s drawn to films that “create a parallel world, but without trying to do it in a very futuristic…[and] distant way.” Instead, he wants his cinematic universe to be “grounded and warm,” to feel not unlike our own, allowing him to “comment about our society and talk about our reality” in offbeat and unexpected ways.
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