The Lobster

Single people are checked into a hotel and given forty-five days to pair off. The alternative is an animal of their choosing. Lanthimos plays the rule without a wink, which makes the dances and the hunts worse. Colin Farrell’s David picks a lobster because lobsters live a long time and stay fertile. Rachel Weisz is in the woods, where the opposite rule is just as strict. The A24 trailer is the hotel manager’s questionnaire. The film is two people trying to match a limp.