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  • Jessie, Riz to headline sci-fi romance feature Fingernails  

    By Express News Service

    Actors Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed will headline a sci-fi romance feature titled Fingernails. Written by Sam Steiner and Stavros Raptis, the film will be directed by Christos Nikou, who is best known for helming the 2020 Green drama Apples.

    The film is set in a world where a test has been discovered that measures whether couples are truly in love. To help couples succeed, love institutes have opened to guide them. As the official plotline reads, Anna (Buckley) is sceptical of the positive result she’s received with her longtime partner, so she starts working in a love institute as an assistant to Trevor (Ahmed), a mysterious, dedicated instructor.

    Fingernails is produced by Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films along with FilmNation Entertainment. Jerome Duboz serves as the executive producer. Buckley is best known for her performance in titles such as Wild Rose, Judy, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and The Lost Daughter. She currently stars in Alex Garland’s Men. Ahmed, best known for Sound of Metal, recently won an Oscar for the best live-action short film for The Long Goodbye. 

  • Carey Mulligan to headline ‘Fingernails’

    By Express News Service
    Actor Carey Mulligan is set to star in Fingernails, the English-language film debut of Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou.

    Backed by Cate Blanchett, Fingernails will be directed by Nikou, best known for directing Apples, which was recently selected as Greece’s submission for Best International Feature category at the 2021 Academy Awards.

    Fingernails will follow a woman named Anna (Mulligan), who increasingly suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner may not actually be the real thing. In an attempt to improve her situation, Anna secretly embarks on a new assignment working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.

    Blanchett will produce the project through her Dirty Films banner alongside Andrew Upton and Coco Francini.Mulligan, who was recently seen in Emerald Fennell’s thriller, Promising Young Woman, is also part of Netflix drama, The Dig, and Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein film, Maestro.