The Lobster

France, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands and United Kingdom, 2015

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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 animals and sent off into The Woods.

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Credits

co-producer

Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

producer

Ceci Dempsey

Ed Guiney

Lee Magiday

Yorgos Lanthimos

production company

CNC

Haut et Court

Duration

01:58:00

Production dates
2015 2015

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-254320

Language

English

TMDB-Movie

254320

Wikidata

Q16996794

Collected

97 times

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