Recently following tortuous clues on TV as a True Detective, Colin Farrell also has an equally strange but slightly lighter movie incoming. He stars in** Dogtooth** director Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster, as a man on a rather peculiar dating retreat. Have a look at the new trailer.
As you'll have gleaned from that, The Lobster is a dystopian satire in which Colin Farrell’s recently single David visits a spa where he has 45 days to find a partner whose personality matches his. If he fails, he will be turned into an animal of his choosing and released into the wild.
A hit in its festival life at the likes of Cannes and TIFF, Empire's Damon Wise caught it at the former and says it's "a true surrealist fantasy worthy of Dali and Buñuel. Lanthimos’ abstract, dryly witty dialogue translates very well, as does the conceit. The premise is brought to the surface very quickly, in a simple line of dialogue – the pleasure lies in seeing where it goes next..."
Along with Farrell, The Lobster stars Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, and Michael Smiley. It's out in the UK on October 16.