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The Lobster

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Original title: The Lobster
Year: 2015
Running time: 118 min.
Country: Greece
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Screenwriter: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Music: Varios
Cinematography: Thimios Bakatatakis
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Michael Smiley, Ben Whishaw, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Rosanna Hoult, Heidi Ellen Love
Producer: Co-production Greece-Ireland-United Kingdom-Netherlands-France;
Film4 Productions, Irish Film Board, Eurimages, Netherlands Film Fund, Greek Film Center, British Film Institute, Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Faliro House, Haut et Court, Lemming Film, Protagonist
Genre: Sci-Fi. Drama. Romance | Dystopia. Black Comedy
Synopsis: An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of the Town, are arrested and transferred to the Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released in the woods. A desperate man escapes from the Hotel to the woods where the Loners live and there he falls in love although it’s against the rules.

Awards: 2016: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

2016: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Actor-Comedy (Colin Farrell)

2015: Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize

2015: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best British Film

2015: European Films Awards: Best Screenplay & Custome Design

2015: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Best Supp. Actress (Colman). 7 Nom.

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2015: Sevilla Film Festival: Official Selection

2016: European Film Awards: Nominated for Audience Award

2016: Critics Choice Awards: Nominated for Best Original

2016: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Actor (Farrell) & Screenplay

2016: San Francisco Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

2016: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Screenplay

2016: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

2016: Gaudí Awards: Nominated for Best European Film

Critics' reviews

"All the strangeness adds up towards something genuinely significant, an atypically rich and substantial comedy that's stuffed with great scenes and performances."

Oliver Lyttelton: IndieWire
"A boldly imaginative Kafka-esque parable, "The Lobster" is loaded with dazzling ideas that don't ultimately pull together (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"

Kyle Smith: New York Post
"A wickedly funny, unexpectedly moving satire (...) This ingenious lo-fi fantasy will delight those who already thrilled to Lanthimos’s vision in 'Alps' and the Oscar-nominated 'Dogtooth'."

Guy Lodge: Variety
"A dark, deeply funny dystopian tale (...) [An] hilarious and haunting surreal parable."

Leslie Felperin: The Hollywood Reporter
"The existential rabbit-hole plot of The Lobster couldn't be more bonkers. The premise shouldn't work at all, but it does...and beautifully"

Chris Nashawaty: Entertainment Weekly
"Yorgos Lanthimos’s first English-language feature is enjoyably strange but fails to follow through on its premise. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"I haven’t seen anything quite like it before (...) This is the kind of film you have to go back to and check it really happened. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"

Robbie Collin: Telegraph
"[It] starts strong but loses its way (...) The concept is both captivating and morbid (...) The filmmaker is never able to right the ship"

Jason Gorber: Screen Anarchy

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