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Lobster, The (15)

Lobster, The (15)

Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

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 beasts and sent off into The Woods.

More information on this production is available at www.lobsterfilm.co.uk.

The critical consensus

More artful weirdness from the director of Dogtooth.

John Patterson, The Guardian, 10/10/2015

Inordinately strange and tiresomely glum, but in spots hideously funny.

***(*)(*)Ian Nathan, Empire Online, 12/10/2015

This macabre drama, starring Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell, about a hotel where single people must find a mate or be turned into a wild animal starts hilariously but loses its bite.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 15/10/2015

The Lobster is a movie in which, arguably, far too much has been thrown into the pot. Even so, you can’t help but admire its director’s idiosyncratic brilliance.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 15/10/2015

The Lobster gets full marks for originality but wears out its welcome long before the end.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 16/10/2015

Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman deliver some fine dystopian lunacy in Yorgos Lanthimos’s English-language debut.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 18/10/2015

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday January 1, 2016, until Thursday January 7, 2016. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

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