The Lobster-Festival de Cannes 2015

THE LOBSTER

In Competition – Feature Films

Directed by :

Yorgos LANTHIMOS 

Country:

IRELAND, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, GREECE, NETHERLANDS

Year:

2015

Duration:

118.00 minutes

• Jury Prize, 2015

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Synopsis

A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

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• in English

Yorgos LANTHIMOS

Credits

• Yorgos LANTHIMOS - Director
• Thimios BAKATAKIS - Director of Photography
• Yorgos LANTHIMOS - Script / Dialogue
• Yorgos MAVROPSARIDIS - Film Editor
• Efthimis FILIPPOU - Script / Dialogue
• Johnnie BURN - Sound

Actors

• Colin FARRELL - David
• Jessica BARDEN - Nosebleed woman
• Rachel WEISZ - Short-sighted woman
• Olivia COLMAN - Hotel manager
• Ashley JENSEN - Biscuit woman
• Ariane LABED - The maid
• Angeliki PAPOULIA - Heartless woman
• John C. REILLY - Lisping man
• Léa SEYDOUX - Loner leader
• Michael SMILEY - Loner swimmer
• Ben WHISHAW - Limping man