The Lobster is set to receive its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next week and two Cannes posters for the film have been unveiled.
The Lobster is the highly anticipated English speaking film debut for director Yorgos Lanthimos - who has brought us movies such as Alps and Dogtooth during his career.
The movie is set to bring together elements of comedy, romance and science-fiction and will screen In Competition at Cannes.
Lanthimos has brought together a great cast for the film, as Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman, and Ashley Jensen are all on board.
The Lobster is a blackly funny love story where finding love is a matter of life or death. A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel.
There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.
The battle for the Palme d'Or is set to be a fierce one this year, as The Sea of Trees, Sicario, Macbeth, Mountains May Depart, and Chronic are some of the other films that are In Competition.
