Project Detail

The Lobster

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.
Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition

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Details

Year: 2015
Type of film: Features
Running time: 118 mins
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer: Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey, Yorgos Lanthimos
Executive Producer: Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Sam Lavender
Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Screenwriter: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Director of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis
Production Designer: Jacqueline Abrahams
Sound: Johnnie Burn
Principal cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Michael Smiley, Ben Whishaw

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ireland, UK, France, Greece, Netherlands coproduction

Element Pictures (IE, UK), Scarlet Films (UK), Limp (UK), Faliro House Productions SA (GR), Haut et Court (FR), Lemming Film (NL), British Film Institute (UK), Channel Four Television Corporation (UK)

Element Pictures UK

Lee Magiday
14 Newburgh Street
London
W1F 7RT

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Scarlet Films

Ceci Dempsey

Limp

Yorgos Lanthimos
c/o Lee Magiday
Element Pictures

Sales Company

Protagonist Pictures

42 - 48 Great Portand Street
London
W1W 7NB

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