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The Lobster s a confounding, strange film in the same way something like John Boorman's Zardoz is. While this doesn't feature Sean Connery running around in a red jock-strap killing people, there's imagery in Yorgo Lanthimos' film that's just as bizarre. Not having seen his prior film, Dogtooth, I didn't quite know what to expect with this and while it's too weird to ever please a mainstream audience, it's often a brilliantly enigmatic work, and a must-see for connoisseurs of weird cinema.
Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most underrated directors around. Here's why the genius behind The Lobster is regarded as one.
Welcome to another installment of This Week On Blu-Ray, where I tell you what the big releases are and whether they’re worth getting. It’s one hell of a week for physical media if you’re a lover of comics, genre film, and great TV. Batman: The Killing Joke, one of the seminal graphic novels within the […]
AVClub: The demented deadpan comedy The Lobster takes place in an alternate reality where all adults have just 45 days to secure a romantic partner; if they fail to do so by the deadline, they’re turned into animals of their choosing. The film’s most striking transformation, however, isn’t so much man into beast as stud into dud. Can that really be Colin Farrell, the aging Irish heartthrob of In Bruges, under all that extra weight, those unflattering glasses, that bushy black mustache? As David, a sad-sack college professor facing the end of his marriage (and by extension, a future as the titular crustacean), Farrell hasn’t just undergone a dramatic physical makeover. There’s also a noticeable loss of swagger in his step, as if every drop of movie-star braggadocio has been drained from his (suddenly doughy) body. So confident is The Lobster in this illusion of ordinary-dude frumpiness that it actually seats the actor right next to John C. Reilly, all but inviting comparison. That’s just showing off.
