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"Fingernails" stars Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Allen White as
Anna and Ryan, who have established their compatibility in the
lab, and then reflect on their relationship three years later.
At the start, each sacrificed an entire fingernail for the tests
which are supposed to eliminate all uncertainties and risks
associated with love, including divorce.
Ryan is happy with things as they are. But Anna wants more and
secretly takes a job at a love institute, where she meets star
instructor Amir (Riz Ahmed) and begins to have her doubts about
the whole process.
"I was trying to understand what is love and why a lot of people
are using all these dating apps and how technology has changed
the way we experience a lot of things," Nikou told Reuters.
"Fingernails" is set in an unspecified period to reflect the
timelessness of love, said Nikou, a former assistant director to
Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos, whose film "The Lobster" also
anatomizes relationships.
The only clear link to the present is a scene featuring a cinema
running a retrospective of films starring Hugh Grant, and a
reference to one of his most famous rom-coms, "Notting Hill".
Grant turned down an offer to play the owner of the love
institute in "Fingernails" said Nikou, but the film still
includes a tribute to the British actor.
"We wanted to create an inside joke that the owner of the love
Institute is Hugh Grant, because he's always the guy who gets
the girl at the end.
"And then he said 'no' and now he's on the marquee of a cinema
(in the film) and I love that."
"Fingernails" is out in select cinemas and streaming globally on
Apple TV+ from Nov. 3.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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