Jessie Buckley, Jeremy Allen White and Riz Ahmed star in a silly, sci-fi story of a love triangle.
The agony of love or, rather, of not knowing whether your beloved loves you is treated metaphorically in Christos Nikou’s “Fingernails,” a fable that takes the kind of eccentric, delicate poetry of the filmmaker’s lovely first feature, “Like that earlier film, which was set in a kind of timeless, retro-futuristic dystopia without cellphones, and in which cassette tape players were used as therapeutic tools to treat an epidemic of amnesia — a world of not quite yesterday, today or tomorrow, but...
But in the wake of some unspecified pandemic-like “crisis” precipitated by the unpredictability of passion, a solution has been found. The technology has been discovered, at a place called the Love Institute, for couples to determine whether Cupid’s aim is true.
Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Allen White are the couple at the center of this tale, which ends up being exactly as nutty as it sounds. They’ve already been tested: positive, and they have the certificate to prove it. But it isn’t hard to tell, from such unscientific evidence as the way one’s lip trembles or the little white lie the other tells, that there may be trouble in paradise.
Torture as a metaphor for love misses the mark as well. If Nikou, who co-wrote the screenplay with his “Apples” collaborator Stavros Raptis and Sam Steiner, wants to mock rom-coms or unrequited romances, he’s barking up the wrong tree. All he needs to do is listen to the 1967 Young Rascals song “How Can I Be Sure?” to know where the pain comes from: It’s not the knowing that hurts, but the not knowing.
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