The Lobster
Crit
Wow, emotional fascism times two. The unnamed character played by Colin Farrell, whose wife no longer loves him, checks into a hotel that specializes in pairing off the loveless or, failing that (you have 45 days, with a creepy asterisk), turning each into the animal of his or her choice.Eventually our man escapes, only to find himself in a group of rebels wherein love, sex, and even flirtation are forbidden, with dire consequences for transgressors. There he meets an unnamed woman played by Rachel Weisz, with whom he has myopia in common, but they're insufficiently short-sighted not to notice that they look like Colin Farrell (albeit with a pot belly) and Rachel Weisz, so transgressions are pretty much inevitable, along with the dire consequences.
An absurdist comedy that turns dark as eternal night, unlike anything else I've seen, which is also true of the other Yorgos Lanthimos film I've seen, Dogtooth. Funny though, I see my last paragraph of that post fits here too:
I'll give [A. O.] Scott the last word, because it's a good word: "a creepy, funny, elegantly shot allegory of something very weird in human nature (Language? Power? Sex? Family?)."
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Crit
Consistently hilarious, a Spinal Tap for the youngsters, and if I don't necessarily need the entire soundtrack, I may have to buy the bin Laden song, based on a joke expressed much more subtly in Annie Hall.
Trailers
- De Palma--Documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, so yeah, probably.
- Kevin Hart: What Now?--Probably not.
- Nerve--Truth or Dare taken to catastrophic online extremes.
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