2015 1h 59m Yorgos Lanthimos

The Lobster

Name: The Lobster
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Made in Europe, Science-Fiction
Released: 2015
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Léa Seydoux

★ 7.1 IMDb

Drama Romance Comedy Made in Europe Science-Fiction

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

Writers Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou

Cast Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Léa Seydoux

DP Thimios Bakatakis

Essays and Criticism

On this film

TIFF 2015 | The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/ UK/ Greece/ France/ Netherlands)—Special Presentations by Angelo Muredda, Cinema Scope The Current Debate: Is "The Lobster" Dystopia? by Jacob Paul, MUBI Notebook The Lobster - Young Critics Workshop 2015 by Bart Versteirt, photogénie

On Yorgos Lanthimos

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’ by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Films of Faith and Poverty by Yair Raveh, FIPRESCI Mythomaniacs by Bart Versteirt, photogénie

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