‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Prove Chemistry Isn’t a Science In a Wise, Tender Sci-Fi Romance
variety.comGuy Lodge Film Critic It’s the stock answer that many a happy long-term couple has given prying friends and relatives to explain why they haven’t married: “We don’t need a piece of paper to prove our love.” True enough.
What can official documents tell you of something as wily and elusive as human desire? Is a band of gold a safeguard against a change of heart?
Of course not, yet millions want it anyway, a ratification of feelings that might otherwise seem slippery or intangible from the outside.
In the alternate universe of “Fingernails,” a quietly searching and yearning science-fiction romance from Greek director Christos Nikou, the piece of paper in question isn’t a marriage certificate but a printed test result: a mathematical, machine-determined declaration that you and your partner are fully in love.
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