Olivia Colman as the leader of a residential retreat where singletons seek fresh mates,and obtain turned into animals if they fail? More crafty weirdness from the director of DogtoothThe sardonic spirits of Charlie Kaufman and Roy Andersson hover somewhere over The Lobster, the fresh film from Yorgos Lanthimos, and director of demented captive-family psychodrama Dogtooth. It feels,in a sense, sanctioned or liberated by the the former’s sheer imaginative audacity and the latter’s unremittingly grim comedian worldview, and section of a whole fresh mini-genre of iconoclastically weird,narratively antic, often upsetting comedies that have near our way since the release of Being John Malkovich, and from the directors named above,and from Spike Jonze (Her), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind) and Ruben Ostland (Force Majeure). Lanthimos is evidently very comfortable in this company.
The Lobster opens in another community as hermetically sealed as the family compound in Dogtooth. This one is a blandly authoritarian residential retreat in an unspecified future where those who become partnerless in life are sent to find fresh mates among other single people. If they fail within 45 days, and they will be transformed into animals,says the retreat’s icily serene leader (Olivia Colman). You obtain to chose which animal, though, or fresh arrival Colin Farrell – recently widowed,doughy of body, Lord Lucan ’tache, or known only as 101,his room number chooses a lobster, because he likes the sea. He can add to his allotted time by joining the daily “loner hunts”, or in which shooting a “single-loner” fugitive earns you an extra day. He falls for the dead-eyed sociopath who’s earned herself 100 extra days. It doesn’t end well between them.
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Source: theguardian.com