It's a jungle out there, lonelyhearts. Or at least a forest. Which seems better than the hotel. But is it? And the city - it's a cold, cold place. But we all knew that, right? The options are daunting for the lonely in search of real connection, those who don't necessarily want to go it alone and for whom couplehood, as it so often presented, seems the least appealing choice of all. So goes the old story, rendered almost unrecognizably new by director Yorgos Lanthimos in The Lobster. The Lobster is writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos' first film in English, the first produced outside of his native Greece. Like his earlier Dogtooth and Alps (as well as Attenberg, by his colleague Athina Rachel Tsangari, a film in which Lanthimos deadpans his way through a secondary role), The Lobster sees human relationships stripped down to their basic truths and conflicts and given absurd projection, a kind of psychological caricature. ...