The Lobster

— “The Lobster” may be even more weird than I had expected. It’s also more complex than I had expected. It takes place in an alternate world where marriage and children are still the objective but really goes a bit farther than our world goes to dissuade other options, offering lots of opportunities for very dark humor. It’s playing the art houses and the audience I saw it with enjoyed the humor—most were coupled too. What I hadn’t expected was for it to also have a very odd but tender love story. Ultimately, the rules for those who’d appropriately paired didn’t make life much better—they just got to continue on with their species. There was a stiffness about all the characters that left viewers with little question that this might be sci-fi but is, instead, a strictly Dystopian tale. I liked it and the audience’s reaction to its ending was particularly interesting.

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[2015. 119 min. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Jessica Barden.]
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lobster-cannes-review-795869/