2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura

Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there’ll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking splash he made back in 2009 with the unsettling, and yet darkly sidesplitting Dogtooth. as he incrementally adds to his filmography. Winning top honors in the Un Certain Regard section, Yorgos Lanthimos who got his start with the co-directed My Best Friend in 2001 and Kinetta in 2005 officially find himself in the bigger ring and the red carpet steps at the Grand Théâtre Lumière this evening. Unlike…say six years ago, patrons have a firm idea about his idiosyncratic style (and taste as a producer) but with The Lobster are still in the know about not being in the know.

Featuring familiar Alps players in Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia and in co-writer Efthymis Filippou (he and Lanthimos have now co-signed three features in a row), the early buzz began all the way back in the first quarter of 2014, had judging from this morning’s press screening: the buzz as indeed carrieed over. Featuring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden, the trades are pretty much unanimous in calling this dystopian comedy a swirled colored of its own. Here’s the early appreciation for the title in grid form.

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