In the warped world of Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Lobster”, society has decreed that single people or those who have lost their mates must find someone during a hotel “dating game” or be turned into an animal of their choice.
The film, in competition at the Cannes film festival where it was shown on Friday, features a somewhat bloated-looking Colin Farrell as an architect whose wife has left him.
Farrell, who said he was thrilled the film was made in his native Ireland, added: “I have no clue what it’s about except a sense of the deep loneliness that permeates (modern life).”
