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The Lobster

  • 2015
  • R
  • 1h 59m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Colin Farrell in The Lobster (2015)
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DramaRomanceSci-Fi

In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into ... Read allIn a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

  • Director
    • Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Writers
    • Yorgos Lanthimos
    • Efthimis Filippou
  • Stars
    • Colin Farrell
    • Rachel Weisz
    • Jessica Barden
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    270K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    613
    247
    • Director
      • Yorgos Lanthimos
    • Writers
      • Yorgos Lanthimos
      • Efthimis Filippou
    • Stars
      • Colin Farrell
      • Rachel Weisz
      • Jessica Barden
    • 817User reviews
    • 440Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 33 wins & 83 nominations total

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    John C. Reilly and Colin Farrell in The Lobster (2015)
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    Top cast

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    Colin Farrell
    Colin Farrell
    • David
    Rachel Weisz
    Rachel Weisz
    • Short Sighted Woman
    Jessica Barden
    Jessica Barden
    • Nosebleed Woman
    Olivia Colman
    Olivia Colman
    • Hotel Manager
    Jacqueline Abrahams
    Jacqueline Abrahams
    • Donkey Shooter
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    • Doctor
    Anthony Dougall
    • 70 Year Old Waiter
    Sean Duggan
    Sean Duggan
    • Guard Waiter
    Roland Ferrandi
    Roland Ferrandi
    • Loner Leader's Father
    James Finnegan
    • Bald Man
    Robert Heaney
    • Restaurant Waiter
    Rosanna Hoult
    Rosanna Hoult
    • David's Wife
    Jaro
    • Bob the Dog
    Ryac
    • Bob the Dog
    Ashley Jensen
    Ashley Jensen
    • Biscuit Woman
    Kathy Kelly
    • Police Officer 1
    Ariane Labed
    Ariane Labed
    • The Maid
    Ewen MacIntosh
    Ewen MacIntosh
    • Trainer Waiter (Shooting Range)
    • Director
      • Yorgos Lanthimos
    • Writers
      • Yorgos Lanthimos
      • Efthimis Filippou
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Colin Farrell gained forty pounds for his role in this film.
    • Goofs
      When the heartless woman is escorting David out of their room, she clearly has blood splatters on the backside of her calf. As she chases David through the halls, the blood on the back of her calf disappears. When David shoots her with the tranquilizer in the back, the blood has reappeared on her calf.
    • Quotes

      Loner Leader: We dance alone. That's why we only play electronic music.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Colin Farrell/Rachel Weisz/Dawn French/Chris O'Dowd/Rod Stewart (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1; II Adagio Affetuoso Ed Appasionato
      Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performed by Juilliard String Quartet

      Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Inc

    User reviews817

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    9/10
    Easily the weirdest film you'll see all year
    There's no chance that you'll see a film as weird as The Lobster this whole year. In what is effectively an indie art-house piece, you get a completely insane and almost unfathomable world filled with more and more absurdities everywhere you look. However, it's such an incredibly unique and eye-catching film that it's still hugely engrossing and surprisingly entertaining to watch.

    The story centres around one man, played by Colin Farrell, as he attempts to find a partner as a part of this bizarre system. The first act revolves around his time in 'The Hotel', and is not only hugely odd, but both dramatic and unnerving as well as hilarious to watch, featuring some of the best dark comedy written in years.

    The film takes its story as seriously as any drama, and you feel that through the deeply disturbing atmosphere that emerges off the screen. However, as the film is just so weird, it eases you into the oddness of it all very impressively through the use of humour, something that more pretentious art-house films fail to do, and are resultantly a lot harder to really get into.

    So, you'll definitely be laughing a lot, if not in a more disturbed than hugely entertained manner, throughout the first act, and by the end of it, you'll surely be as used as you can be to the incredibly weird feel of this whole film.

    Just to give you an idea of how unorthodox this film is, every scene is full of awkward silences, the actors speak as if they're reading off of cue cards with no emotion whatsoever, the imagery is very ugly and unpleasant to look at right the way through, and the incredible slow pace of it all means that the film feels like it goes on for about five times as long as it actually does.

    And yet, I still can't get around the fact that this is a brilliant film. Mainly, it's the fact that it's just so unique and almost shockingly bizarre, but it's just filled with so many captivating ideas that it's impossible not to be fully drawn into this insane story.

    So, the performances, the directing, the writing, and pretty much everything is stunning, apart from one big issue that prevents this from being a truly incredible film. Following the end of the first act, the film does lose its way quite a lot, taking almost too big a leap into an even stranger abyss than you ever imagined at the beginning, and, with a little less humour in the latter stages, isn't as easy to watch as the first act had been.

    However, it does pick up again towards a terrifying and as bizarre as ever conclusion, and that's why I'm going to give The Lobster a 9 out of 10, but I must warn you that if you feel you can't cope with this film for longer than the first twenty minutes, then it's not for you. This is definitely a cult film for the ages, but won't be a big hit with general audiences.
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    • Oct 18, 2015

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    • Release date
      • October 16, 2015 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • Ireland
      • United Kingdom
      • Greece
      • France
      • Netherlands
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (France)
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Greek
    • Also known as
      • A Unexpected Journey of the World
    • Filming locations
      • County Kerry, Ireland
    • Production companies
      • Film4
      • Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
      • Eurimages
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €4,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $9,077,245
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $190,252
      • May 15, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $17,428,764
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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