2015 · comedy · drama · romance
The Lobster
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos1h 59m2015
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
Our read: The Lobster (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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