Loopster review3/19/2023 ![]() ![]() To their dismay – suppressed, like all emotions – they find that any attachments have to be vetted for romantic plausibility by the management. The Lobster star Colin Farrell: ‘Internet dating is predicated on narcissism’ – video interview GuardianĬolin Farrell plays David, a plump moustachioed guy who has come along with his dog (actually his transformed brother) and meets various other unhappy daters played by Ashley Jensen, Ben Whishaw and John C Reilly, who are all excellent, as is the inscrutable maid played by Lanthimos’s partner Ariane Labed. Everyone speaks with a lack of emotion, like cyborgs under sedation. Each kill wins them a potentially vital extra day in the dating arena. ![]() People can gain extra time with hunting sessions where they can shoot the renegade singletons who hide out in the woodland. If they have not found a partner by the end, they will be transformed into a wild animal of their choice and released into the surrounding countryside. We are in a dystopian future where single people are forced to attend what amounts to a month-long dating retreat at a luxury hotel, presided over by a stern manager, wonderfully played by Olivia Colman. It also asks the audience for an emotional investment in a lead-cum-narrator played by Rachel Weisz who is disconcertingly less compelling than every other character. The film loses interest in its extraordinary animal-transformation premise, and it abandons its initial, fascinating hotel setting, and all the superbly deadpan characters there, in favour of a new bunch of characters in a new place who are not as funny or interesting. It runs out of ideas and its style becomes a mannerism. This happens about half way through its contrivances and contortions lose their angular rigour and point. After a hilarious and creepy start, The Lobster jumps the shark. ![]()
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