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 belief in human perseverance.