Delightfully Weird Trailer For THE LOBSTER, Starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz

If you like movies with unique and bizarre premises, The Lobster is probably at the top of your list of things to see as soon as possible. It's about — get this — single people at a strange hotel who are turned into animals if they don't fall in love in 45 days. Here's the synopsis:

The Lobster is 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.

Colin Farrell plays the hapless protagonist, whose brother has already been turned into a dog, and when he's sent to the Hotel, he meets Rachel Weisz, who looks like she may be doing a riff on her quirky-but-likeable character from The Brothers Bloom.

Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman, and more co-star, and The Lobster hails from director Yorgos Lanthimos (Alps, Dogtooth). The movie played at the Cannes Film Festival last year and is set to play the Toronto International Film Festival this year. It has an October 16th release date set in the UK, but no US release scheduled yet. Hopefully that changes quickly, because this looks like it could be one of the year's most endearing films.