The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Finally something good is gonna come out of Colin Farrell's muzzie in season 2 of True Detective

The sardonic spirits of Charlie Kaufman and Roy Andersson hover somewhere over The Lobster, the new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of demented captive-family psychodrama Dogtooth. It feels, in a sense, sanctioned or liberated by the the former’s sheer imaginative audacity and the latter’s unremittingly grim comic worldview, part of a whole new mini-genre of iconoclastically weird, narratively antic, often upsetting comedies that have come our way since the release of Being John Malkovich, from the directors named above, and from Spike Jonze (Her), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind) and Ruben Ostland (Force Majeure). Lanthimos is evidently very comfortable in this company.

The Lobster opens in another community as hermetically sealed as the family compound in Dogtooth. This one is a blandly authoritarian residential retreat in an unspecified future where those who become partnerless in life are sent to find new mates among other single people. If they fail within 45 days, they will be transformed into animals, says the retreat’s icily serene leader (Olivia Colman). You get to chose which animal, though, and new arrival Colin Farrell – recently widowed, doughy of body, Lord Lucan ’tache, and known only as 101, his room number – chooses a lobster, because he likes the sea. He can add to his allotted time by joining the daily “loner hunts”, in which shooting a “single-loner” fugitive earns you an extra day. He falls for the dead-eyed sociopath who’s earned herself 100 extra days.

[drizzle]

yea this looks great, looking forward to it

[Spartan]

That reminds me, we should have added that dance scene from Dogtooth in the non-dance movie thread.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

I didn't see that thread. Did the Buffalo 66 titty bar scene to Yes' Heart Of The Sunrise make it?

[Spartan]

Yes, you posted it in that very thread.

Wasn't too fond of Dogtooth initially, but I have warmed to it over the years.

Anyone watched Lanthimos' 2011 film Alps?

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Duh, oh yeah I remember that thread now.

Alps is pretty great, imo.

[Spartan]

Released in the US tomorrow:

[jamrage]

This was one of my favorite movies of last year.