The Lobster

For all the hundreds of films you may have seen, it's almost guaranteed that you’ll never have seen anything like The Lobster before.

In a rather dystopian future, according to the laws of the state, single people are taken to The Hotel where they have 45 days to find a partner otherwise they are turned into beasts and sent to The Woods. This where the title of the film comes in: if he can’t find a partner, David (Colin Farrell), fancies being turned into a lobster. And he’s constantly reminded by the consequences of failing by the presence of his dog- who is in fact his brother.

David struggles to find a partner, that is until he meets Rachel Weisz’s character - a Loner, who roams around and is forbidden from having a partner. Makes the start of a new relationship a bit difficult, doesn’t it?

The Lobster is wonderfully weird and brilliantly funny with perfect cold deliveries of lines by all the cast; it's a whole new version of a “bad first date” movie that won’t fail to make you laugh.

Jess Walker