Why the Cate Blanchett-Exec Produced 'Apples' Film Feels "Strangely Familiar"
hollywoodreporter.comIt was in Venice and Cate Blanchett was playing hooky. Escaping from her duties as jury president for the 2020 Venice International Film Festival, the Oscar-winning actress snuck off to check out some of the films screening outside the festival's main competition.
That's when she saw Apples, the debut film from Greek director Christos Nikou, which opened Venice's Orizzonti sidebar. The dramedy, about a world hit by a pandemic of amnesia, struck a chord. "Two chords, actually," says Blanchett. "The film is about the things I've been preoccupied with, particularly at the moment we are all in now, of how love and grief are unforgettable and how one copes with the loss of the familiar." Apples is an oddball fable set in an entirely analog world.
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