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Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Credits
Producers: Ceci Dempsey Ed Guiney Yorgos Lanthimos Lee Magiday
Cinematography: Thimios Bakatakis
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos Efthymis Filippou
Principal Cast
Colin Farrell Rachel Weisz Olivia Colman
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In the near future – or perhaps an alternate version of the present – those without a soulmate are dispatched to a grand hotel in the countryside where they have 40 days to rectify the situation by engaging in a high-stakes version of speed-dating with the other residents, or else they’ll be turned into an animal of their choosing and released into the wild. Navigating his way through this bizarre scenario is architect Colin Farrell; submitting to the cruel rituals of hotel manager Olivia Colman with deadpan resignation, he takes some consolation in her opinion that his animal of choice, a lobster, is an "excellent choice." With The Lobster (an Irish co-production largely filmed in Kerry), Yorgos Lanthimos modulates the abrasive absurdity of his earlier Dogtooth and Alps resulting in a highly original, frequently hilarious film with much to say about our self-inflicted pressures to conform to social norms. Notes by David O'Mahony
118 minutes, Ireland-Greece, 2015, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:55
BALTIMORE 18:30
IO CAPITANO 13:20
JEANNE DU BARRY 13:10, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15:40, 20:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Q&A (PREVIEW) 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20:40
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16:10
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