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Aris Servetalis in Christos Nikou s unsettling directorial debut, Apples
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Dir: Christos Nikou. Starring: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis, Kostas Laskos. 12A cert, 91 mins
“The Greek Weird Wave” is the favoured catch-all term for the country’s arthouse offerings, thanks to a series of films that apply a zonked aesthetic to their far-out conceits. In the process, humanity is usually made to look lost and sad. It all started with Dogtooth (2009), about a psychotic form of home schooling, which was deeply funny and traumatically disturbing – from there, the feted career of Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) sprang.
As a pandemic of amnesia hits Greece, forcing forgotten souls to reconstruct their identities, we wonder whether one man just wants the chance to start again.
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GFF 2021: Apples
In an uncanny version of Athens free from iPhones and where cassette tapes are still in vogue, a virus breaks out robbing citizens of their memories, leaving many to start relearning how to live again from scratch
★★★ Film title: Apples Release date: 19 Mar
A pandemic is sweeping the world. “Tell me something I don’t know,” you might think. In the universe of Christos Nikou’s
Apples, which appears free from accoutrements of modern life like iPhones and laptops, this mysterious plague causes victims to lose all memory of who they are. You might be riding the bus one day and simply realise you’ve no idea where to get off.
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