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THE LOBSTER

By Yorgos LANTHIMOS

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Comedy - Completed 2015

An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel.

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Festival de Cannes 2015

Competition Prix du Jury

Sundance Film Festival 2016

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- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- IRELAND, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, GREECE, NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 119 mn
- Director(s)
- Yorgos LANTHIMOS
- Writer(s)
- Efthimis FILIPPOU, Yorgos LANTHIMOS
- Cast
- Colin FARRELL, Rachel WEISZ, Ben WHISHAW, Lea SEYDOUX, Olivia COLMAN, Ariane LABAD, Angeliki PAPOULIA
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-1EB4-0000-M-0000-0000-8
- EIDR
- 10.5240/C770-FE58-9161-3C59-FE74-8
- Producer(s)
- Lee MAGIDAY, Ed GUINEY, Ceci DEMPSEY
- Synopsis
- A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, 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 into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

THE LOBSTER

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