The Lobster
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Colman
- In Olivia Colman: Films: The Lobster, The Favourite, and The Lost Daughter
…Yorgos Lanthimos’s acclaimed surrealist film The Lobster, playing the manager of a hotel where single people must find a spouse within 45 days or be turned into an animal. The Lobster won the Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, and Colman received another BIFA award, this one for best…
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discussed in biography
- In Yorgos Lanthimos: The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
…his first English-language feature film, The Lobster, featuring a screenplay written with Filippou. Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Léa Seydoux, the film centers on a dystopian society in which single people are made to check into a hotel where they must find a romantic partner within 45 days or…
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Farrell
- In Colin Farrell: Career
…films by director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
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Seydoux
- In Léa Seydoux: Later roles
…sci-fi, appearing in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster (2015), David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022), and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024). In 2021 she collaborated again with Anderson, this time in a larger role, in The French Dispatch (2021).
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Weisz
- In Rachel Weisz
…the Cannes Jury Prize winner The Lobster (2015), and the biographical drama Denial (2016). In Disobedience (2017) Weisz played a single woman who rekindles a forbidden romance with her childhood friend (portrayed by Rachel McAdams) when she returns home to mourn the death of her father, a powerful Orthodox rabbi.…
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