Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #39. Christos Nikou’s Fingernails

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Fingernails

Apples filmmaker Christos Nikou moves into some hearty, heady and hefty terrain with his hyped-up sophomore feature (plus debut English language debut) which is a Apple Studios backed project. It gained the interest of plenty of A-list actors and Fingernails will feature the likes of Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson and Annie Murphy. Production took place in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario in October of last year. This is a sci-fi romance with some possible zany ideas – worth noting: Nikou’s first professional cred was on the set of Dogtooth. Dirty Films’ Coco Francini and Andrew Upton produced the film.

Gist: A woman increasingly suspects that her relationship with her partner is not what it seems. Determined to figure out the truth, she signs up to work at a mysterious institute designed to test the love amongst flailing couples.

Release Date/Prediction: This could possibly grab the trifecta of Telluride, Venice and Toronto and maybe throw in a NYFF showcase.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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