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THE LOBSTER will have its World Premiere at this year’s 68th @Festival_Cannes in the prestigious Official Competition #lobsterfilm

Shooting “The Lobster” in Dublin

Actors In Film

• Colin Farrell as David
• Rachel Weisz as Shortsighted Woman
• Ben Whishaw as Limping Man
• Léa Seydoux as Loner Leader
• John C. Reilly as Lisping Man
• Ashley Jensen as Biscuit Woman
• Olivia Colman as Hotel Manager
• Jessica Barden as Nosebleed Woman
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Doctor
• Michael Smiley as Loner Swimmer
• Ariane Labed as The Maid
• Angeliki Papoulia as Heartless Woman
• Judith King Murphy as guest in room 104
• Kevin McCormack as Police Officer 2

LONDON – John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen (TV’s Ugly Betty), Michael Smiley (The World’s End) and Jessica Barden (Far From the Madding Crowd) have joined Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in Oscar-nominated Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ English-language debut, The Lobster.

The movie, which has also cast Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux, Olivia Colman, Ariane Labed and Aggeliki Papoulia, has begun shooting in Ireland.

Co-written by Lanthimos and his longtime collaborator, Efthymis Filippou, the love story is set in the near future where finding a partner is a matter of life or death.

Single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel and are obliged to find a mate within 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods.

The project is being produced by Element Pictures, Limp and Scarlet Films.

Producers on the film are Lanthimos, Lee Magiday, Ed Guiney and Ceci Dempsey, with Element’s Andrew Lowe and Film4’s Tessa Ross and Sam Lavender acting as executive producers.

Isabel Davis is the lead executive for the BFI Film Fund, while Rory Gilmartin will take a credit for the Irish Film Board, one of the film’s backers.

Partnering on the project are Christos V. Konstantakopoulos of Faliro House in Greece, Carole Scotta of Haut et Court, which will be both the French co-producer and distributor of the film, and Derk-Jan Warrink, Joost de Vries and Leontine Petit of Lemming Films in the Netherlands.

The Lobster is being financed by British broadcaster Channel 4’s standalone film unit Film4, Irish Film Board, the BFI Film Fund, marking the U.K.’s organization’s first film through its minority co-production strand, Eurimages, Greek Film Centre, CNC, the Dutch Film Fund and Canal Plus. THR Website

THE LOBSTER will have its World Premiere at this year’s 68th @Festival_Cannes in the prestigious Official Competition!

Element Pictures are delighted to announce that THE LOBSTER will have its world premiere at this year’s 68th Cannes Film Festival, screening in the prestigious official competition.
THE LOBSTER is the highly anticipated English language debut of internationally acclaimed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, who thrilled and shocked audiences worldwide with DOGTOOTH (2009) and ALPS (2011).

Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, John C Reilly, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman and Michael Smiley, THE LOBSTER is a blackly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death.

The film was shot at Parknasilla in Co Kerry in Spring 2014 and produced by Irish company Element Pictures who will also distribute in Ireland later this year.

Speaking on the announcement, producer Ed Guiney said ‘Yorgos is one of the most visionary film-makers working today and THE LOBSTER is a profoundly moving, brilliantly funny and disturbing meditation on modern love. Cannes competition is the perfect place to launch this film.’

This is Element Picture’s seventh film in official selection at Cannes in recent years; in 2006 Ken Loach’s THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY won the Palme d’Or, in 2007 Lenny Abrahamson’s GARAGE won the CICAE Prize at Directors’ Fortnight, Alicia Duffy’s ALL GOOD CHILDREN was also selected for the Director’s Fortnight section of the festival in 2010, followed by Paolo Sorrentino’s THIS MUST BE THE PLACE in 2011.
Last Year, Loach’s JIMMY’S HALL also received its world premiere at the festival.

THE LOBSTER is written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou and produced by Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Yorgos Lanthimos. Executive Producers are Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross and Sam Lavender. The film was developed by Element and Irish finance for the film came from the Irish Film Board.

Film4, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board, Eurimages, the Netherlands Film Fund, Greek Film Centre and BFI present in association with Protagonist Pictures, with the participation of CANAL+, CINE+ and Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et du Développement International, Institut Français an Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Faliro House, Haut et Court, Lemming Film co-production in association with Limp and with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

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