5 OF THE BEST

Adapted from a short story by author John Ajvide Lindqvist, is another freaky fable about born outsiders, unorthodox love and unusual genitals. When unconventional-looking border agent Tina (Eva Melander) meets equally odd maggot-smuggler Vore (Eero Milonoff), they embark on a relationship that yields one of cinema’s most surprising reveals: I won’t spoil it here, but let’s just say this is a folk tale about folk with tails. Part takes a surreal approach to notions of identification and fluid bodies, only occasionally stumbling with excessive exposition and a deeply uncomfortable child-abuse subplot. But there’s poignancy at its heart, and Melander is terrific as Tina, projecting all sorts of emotions through layers of potentially restrictive prosthetics. Nordic weirdness meets Edward and Tubbs; there’s definitely something for you here.