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The Lobster

2015

Yorgos Lanthimos

Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman ...

6.6

31,464

Sci-Fi. Drama. Romance 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. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"All the strangeness adds up towards something genuinely significant, an atypically rich and substantial comedy that's stuffed with great scenes and performances."	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"A boldly imaginative Kafka-esque parable, "The Lobster" is loaded with dazzling ideas that don't ultimately pull together (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Yorgos Lanthimos’s first English-language feature is enjoyably strange but fails to follow through on its premise. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"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'."	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"A dark, deeply funny dystopian tale (...) [An] hilarious and haunting surreal parable."	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"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)"	POS
Canada	Jason Gorber Screen Anarchy	"[It] starts strong but loses its way (...) The concept is both captivating and morbid (...) The filmmaker is never able to right the ship"	NEU

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