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Animal Farm: The Lobster Review

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"In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods." Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos                    Efthymis Filippou Starring: Colin Farrell                Rachel Weisz               John C. Reilly               Lea Seydoux               Ben Whishaw Whatever you're expecting going into "The Lobster" is wrong. I just want to get that firmly out of the way. Yorgos Lanthimos' ("Dogtooth") biggest film to date is a daring, bold and unrelentingly bleak look into a future so removed from anything resembling sense. Most trailers advertise this as yet another quirky, indie comedy where everything is placed just so with actors uttering kitschy lines of dialogue. However, as soon as the film starts you're greeted with a jarri