The Lobster (2015)
Country: EIRE/GB/GR/FR/NL/US
Technical: col 119m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Rosanna Hoult
Synopsis:
In a posited dystopian society you don't have a marriage licence but a marriage certificate: single people must check into pairing hotels, where they have forty-five days to find a partner or they are turned into an animal of their choice. Meanwhile loner drop-outs hide in the woods, where they are hunted in exchange for remission, and where they impose just as draconian a system for celibacy.
Review:
Incidentally containing uncomfortable reminders of Dogtooth, Lanthimos's meditation on the secret of matrimonial felicity is almost Python-esque at times in its dreamlike logic. Not only are there inconsistencies (or 'lacunae') in abundance (like the walk into the city in smart clothes), but characters talk to each other with a childish naïveté, or like characters in a teach-yourself-a-foreign-language course. What it all means is anyone's guess, but it seems to envision synchronicity, or replication, as the source of an enduring partnership.
Country: EIRE/GB/GR/FR/NL/US
Technical: col 119m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Rosanna Hoult
Synopsis:
In a posited dystopian society you don't have a marriage licence but a marriage certificate: single people must check into pairing hotels, where they have forty-five days to find a partner or they are turned into an animal of their choice. Meanwhile loner drop-outs hide in the woods, where they are hunted in exchange for remission, and where they impose just as draconian a system for celibacy.
Review:
Incidentally containing uncomfortable reminders of Dogtooth, Lanthimos's meditation on the secret of matrimonial felicity is almost Python-esque at times in its dreamlike logic. Not only are there inconsistencies (or 'lacunae') in abundance (like the walk into the city in smart clothes), but characters talk to each other with a childish naïveté, or like characters in a teach-yourself-a-foreign-language course. What it all means is anyone's guess, but it seems to envision synchronicity, or replication, as the source of an enduring partnership.
Country: EIRE/GB/GR/FR/NL/US
Technical: col 119m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Rosanna Hoult
Synopsis:
In a posited dystopian society you don't have a marriage licence but a marriage certificate: single people must check into pairing hotels, where they have forty-five days to find a partner or they are turned into an animal of their choice. Meanwhile loner drop-outs hide in the woods, where they are hunted in exchange for remission, and where they impose just as draconian a system for celibacy.
Review:
Incidentally containing uncomfortable reminders of Dogtooth, Lanthimos's meditation on the secret of matrimonial felicity is almost Python-esque at times in its dreamlike logic. Not only are there inconsistencies (or 'lacunae') in abundance (like the walk into the city in smart clothes), but characters talk to each other with a childish naïveté, or like characters in a teach-yourself-a-foreign-language course. What it all means is anyone's guess, but it seems to envision synchronicity, or replication, as the source of an enduring partnership.