Film Review – Fingernails

The future of love is put to a special test in “Fingernails,” which opens with a card exploring the science of fingers, and how nails can sometimes be useful in the prediction of heart disease. It’s a different kind of ailment that’s examined in the screenplay by Sam Steiner, Stavros Raptis, and Christos Nikou (who also directs), with the writers taking a long look at the chemical and emotional ways of attraction, following a woman’s experience as she acquires a job at a company that’s dedicated to the physiological deduction of relationship longevity. “Fingernails” is an odd one, but not off-putting for the most part, with Nikou clearly looking to make something slightly peculiar about a universal experience, examining the inner drive of desire and the complications that come with it. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com