One review on 30 Oct 2015

2015

The Lobster

Director : Yorgos Lanthimos 

synopsis extract: Adults are required to have a partner. ...

Cast:

  • Colin Farrell 
  • Léa Seydoux 
  • Rachel Weisz 

Film Category
The 2010s
First Seen: Fri 30th Oct 2015
Catalogued: 25th Apr 2024

Synopsis

Adults are required to have a partner. If they loose their partner they have 45 days to find a replacement or be turned into the animal of their choice. Partners are based on a shared defining characteristic. Colin Farrell starts off by making a couple of male friends in the hotel where they have to make their match, but near the end of his term he tries to fake a relationship with disastrous consequences (not least for his brother the dog) and goes on the run to join The Loners where relationships are barred and the rules just as arbitrary and prescriptive. He falls genuinely in love (or is it genuine being still based on a shared characteristic of sortsightedness thus perpetuating the conventions of the world they seek to oppose) with eventual outrageous consequences.

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by Roger on Fri 30th Oct 2015 Watershed Bristol

Review of "The Lobster"

Full review

The premise of the film is confined to the frame, the world depicted makes no sense outside its appearance but accepting that we are able to witness the bare truths underlying social norms and expectations.
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