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The Lobster is a 2015 absurdist black comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, from a screenplay by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. It stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Michael Smiley, and Ben Whishaw. The film follows a newly single bachelor who moves into a hotel with other singles,…
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Image This is a sci-fi/black comedy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. The story is set in a dystopian future where singleness is considered a crime, and single people are forced to find a partner within a certain period of time. If they fail to do so, they are transformed into an animal of their choice and released into the forest. The main character, David, played by Colin Farrell, is a man who has just los…More
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I absolutely loved this movie, which I started watching without even seeing what the story is about... The movie starts in a strange way, with a mail delivery to an old man... and his brother answering the door and telling the mailman he didn't know what his brother ordered and that he was previously arrested for mail bombing. The mailman gets immediately anxious while holding the package in his hand. 😂 We can feel…More
Are you single? No? Good. Because if you are, you'll be sent to a camp, where singles have 45 days to search around for a suitable bachelor or bachelorette. If you failed, you'll be transformed into an animal. Sounds absurd? Well, that was the premise of "The Lobster," an English-language debut of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, Alps). In this new world, citizens can't be single. Being single is a crimina…More
Let me start this text, sharing that for me "The Lobster" is a complicated and disturbing film. The more I think about it, the more it stop being funny and ridiculous. If anyone interprets it only as social satire, I would be angry. If someone else labels it as a dystopia, it will be boring to me. None of these critical approaches work in favor of a full understanding of the film. All of them are only partially true…More
This movie is about a society where people have to find a romantic partner or they will be forced to be turned into an animal. Yeah, you can already tell it will be pretty weird. I would not be surprised if someone literally made this movie from a dream they had after a bad break up. I do not regret watching it, but it left me with a weird feeling.More
The Lobster is a strange, independent film with a very unique dystopian setting: single people must find a partner within 45 days or they will be transformed into the animal of their choice. This dystopian world is weird, it's intrusive, and it is lacking basic humanity. People are more manipulative as they lie in order to get into a relationship they don't want, with a person they do not care about. I mean, it is e…More
From the film director Yorgos Lanthimos, famous for his Oscar-nominated “Dogtooth”, comes his first English-language film Lobster , and the critics described it as ‘’Anti-rom-com, with teeth’’. Lathimos wrote it with his long time screenwriter Efithimis Filippou, and the main cast is given to Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz. If you’re thinking that the big star cast affected Lathimos avant-garde approach…More