Christos Nikou was there at the start of the Greek Weird Wave as the assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy Dogtooth (2009), the movie that launched the absurdist cinema movement partly inspired by the chaos in Greece triggered by the global financial crisis.
More than a decade later, Nikou is adding his own twist to the movement with his assured directorial debut. Apples is an oddball fable — Nikou cites Spike Jonze, Leos Carax, and Charlie Kaufman as influences — set in an entirely analog world where a new pandemic is causing widespread amnesia.
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