Colin Farrell: The Lobster will shock

Colin Farrell couldn’t believe the script for The Lobster when he read it.

The movie is set in a dystopian future where single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days, or be transformed into animals and released into the woods.

It also stars Rachel Weisz and John C. Reilly, and Colin thinks this is the start of a new genre of films.

“There’s a particularness and there’s a clarity of voice in the writing of Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos’ writing and his direction that is incredibly rare, that speaks to writers who approach the human condition not in the way that we experience it every day,” he told Deadline.

“There’s almost a shock that is needed. So this film feels like a new cinematic language, which feels like such a grandiose thing to say. But when I read the script, I couldn’t believe it man.”

Dissecting the themes of the film, the Irish actor says there’s more to it than just male and female relationships.

In fact he feels the surreal nature of the movie questions problems people currently face in society.

“I certainly don’t think it’s an indictment of coupledom. I mean the director [Yorgos] is married, so if it is an indictment of sharing your life with someone he’s more insane than I thought he was.

“For me I get from it that it does question societal convention and tribal convention, and it does question the nature and the very fabric of loneliness and the things we do to escape our loneliness,” he mused.

The Lobster is slated for an October release.