Original title: The lobster
Nationality: Greece, Ireland, UK, Netherlands, France, 2015
Production: A Film4, 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
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Script: Efthymis Filoppou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematography: Thimios Bakatakis
Music: Amy Ashworth
Editing: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman, Lea Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley, Jessica Barden, Ariane Labed
Runtime: 118 minutes
VOSE
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…
