Farrell explores relationship dystopia in 'The Lobster'

The Lobster," out Friday, is the first English-language film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, best known for the dark satire "Dogtooth.

Reilly said Lanthimos' stylish blend of formality and stillness with an underlying wicked, cruel humor is the closest he's ever seen to a Stanley Kubrick.

(Yorgos) has a very specific eye and a very specific perspective on life and love and family and community and grief and all these big things that we have been using art and theater and song to try to uncover hidden meaning in.

There are pools and hot tubs and idyllic views, but also strict rules and mandatory activities that can be as innocuous as a dance, or as violent as a hunt.

[...] they're not just hunting animals; they're hunting loners — a group of singles who have voluntarily exiled themselves from society.

Each resident is looking for another person who shares a defining trait with them, like a limp (Ben Whishaw), a lisp (Reilly), or even chronic nosebleeds (Jessica Barden).