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How to Embrace Your Inner Weirdo
Weird Waves goes searching for eternal gromhood in Southern California and finds it!
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Backwash bizarreness in Carlsbad with Jackson Butler and a gaggle of groms. Reckless rock dodging in the OC with Parker Cohn and friends. Joining a supercharged peanut gallery before seeking the world’s smallest tube in Del Mar with Ronnie, Rusty, Chris and Mike. It’s all here, and it’s all weird. And yes, in case you were wondering, Joel Fox’s oddball visual effects have returned to Weird Waves’ WTF agenda, and are generously applied here.
Apples: A memorably weird Greek fable about amnesia
Bleak, deceptively rich comedy about what happens when identity is stripped away
Genre: Drama
In a recent interview Christos Nikou sought to put some distance between his debut feature and emanations of the Greek “weird wave” such as Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg. One thinks of those heavy metal bands that used to occasionally argue that they were only obliquely connected to the genre. “Iron Axe are really more of a hard blues outfit.” That sort of thing.
It must be irritating to suffer automatic filing into the nearest convenient box, but anyone familiar with those films – even those unaware that Nikou worked as script supervisor on Dogtooth – will immediately detect the linking tendrils. Once again, we are in a world that has been skewed significantly towards the weird. The humour is chilled down to absolute zero. The over-riding pessimism can’t entirely blank out the beli
Aris Servetalis in Christos Nikou s unsettling directorial debut, Apples
Credit: Bartosz Swiniarski
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.
In addition to the films, keep an eye out for special virtual presentations with Almodóvar, Oscar contender Riz Ahmed, and recent Golden Globe winner Andra Day. And don t sleep on getting a ticket to one of the festival’s best additions in recent years, the Knight Heroes talk. This year’s series focuses on four accomplished female filmmakers in conversation: Radha Blank, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Adele Romanski, and Amy Seimetz.
But, of course, this is a
film festival, after all. So here are four movies worth checking out either virtually or in-person.
Apples
Director Christos Nikou proved prophetic with his enigmatic and intriguing feature debut,