34. The Lobster (2016) Film Review

Out of all the dystopian sci-fi future's we've seen in film, did you ever think you'd see one where people are turned into an animal if they can't find a significant other within 45 days? The Lobster (starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz) creates a world that writer’s Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou could only envision. David (played by Colin Farrell) is a lonesome man whose wife just left him, he soon finds himself at a hotel where he must court a lover or turn into the animal he chose: a lobster. With a supporting cast of Lea Sydoux, John C. Reilly, and Olivia Colman: director Yorgos Lanthimos establishes his trademark of unique and bizarre plots where the character's talk as if they're making surgical incisions into people's frontal lobes. Will these A24 fans enjoy this absurdist take on authoritarian control of dating? Caution: movie spoilers.