In well-cast but quirky, downbeat & sluggish drama "Fingernails" Jessie Buckley & Riz Ahmed work at Luke Wilson's institute giving couples intimacy lessons and scientifically testing their torn off fingernails (!) to see if they're 'really' in love - as Buckley & bf Jeremy Allen White apparently are... but are they, really? Writer / director Christos Nikou interestingly bases his first English language film in a strangely backwards seventies / eighties world (where everything (but the music) is a bit rubbish - like in "Wristcutters: A Love Story") but what meaning he's ultimately aiming for is wholly unclear... making it a disappointingly pointless waste of some top acting talent.
Review of Fingernails
Fingernails
(2023)
Pointless, downbeat, sluggish quirky drama that disappointly wastes a fine cast
19 November 2023