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- Yorgos Lanthimos' first English-language feature is a wickedly funny, unexpectedly moving satire of couple-fixated society.
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May 13, 2016 · The Lobster is a comedy in which single people are given 45 days to fall in love before being turned into an animal of their choice.
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Dec 29, 2016 · The Lobster is a film with hidden meaning, which seems to be a satire commenting on the structure of relationships in society. In the film, single people are sent to a special hotel, where they have 45 days to find a new partner.
May 13, 2016 · (Like all good satire, “The Lobster” is close enough to reality to disturb the waters.) A single person has 45 days after a breakup to find a new partner, and if the new partner does not materialize, the single person will be turned into an animal.
May 15, 2015 · It’s a surreal satire about a dating game in which humans are turned into animals. Nicholas Barber explains why The Lobster is Cannes’ first five-star film.
May 13, 2016 · The Lobster looks at first like a spiky satire of modern courtship, and it is a pretty great one at that. But like its hangdog hero, it eventually reveals itself as something altogether more ...
Timothy Laurie and Hannah Stark, writing in the New Review of Film and Television Studies, praise The Lobster as "both a satire of compulsory coupling and an equally damning critique of libertarian individualism as an alternative to domestic monogamy".
