This film by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is immersed in a very personal form of science fiction and shocks us right from the start . We see a society where single people from The City are captured and transferred to The Hotel. In their new home they’ll have a maximum of 45 days to find a partner. If they don’t succeed they’ll be turned into animals and released in a place called The Forest. The Killing of a Sacred Deer, his latest film, was awarded best script in the Cannes Festival (2017) and is similar to his previous films Canino, Alps and The Lobster in its well-defined narrative structure, and its unique humour. It is at the same time tragic, comic and absurd, and clearly inspired by Kafka’s universe. Although in all his work he presents a sharp analysis of our society, with cold and distant characters, The Lobster has its own features. Lanthimos looks for tenderness in the middle of a chaos of deformity. This is maybe the greatest shock, when the grotesque gives way to beauty and tenderness.

There’s hope in The Lobster.

2017 

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2016

-Prémios BAFTA

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2015

-Festival de Cannes

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-British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)

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