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On paper, The Lobster shouldn't work. Any rational producer would probably avoid a movie where the performances are intentionally flat and the characters get turned into animals ranging from camels to dogs, but these producers took a huge risk that paid off massively.

The Lobster follows Colin Farrell's David, a lovelorn thirty-something who is forced to stay at a hotel that's built to find singletons their perfect partners. After 45 days, the guests will either depart with a prospective spouse, or they'll be turned into an animal of their choosing. It's a strange concept that pokes fun at the difference between love and lust, the actors' flat performances an intentional move to heighten the sterile nature of the world and the loveless, machine-like relationships that the hotel forges.

The Lobster is certainly an odd film, but it revels in its weirdness, and you never once get the sense that the director is just making up quirky stuff as he goes along. Like Horns, the fact that it's so unusual probably didn't help its mainstream appeal, but that's sort of the point. The Lobster is a film about defying convention, so for it to find conventional success would almost feel like a betrayal of its central concept. Stick it on your watchlist!