The Lobster's Cry (2012) User Reviews

Strange...but beautiful

[shatguintruo · 9/10 · 6 July 2013]

Strange movie this ... to begin is a short film and I confess that I am not a fan of short film. The story is about a young man who is sent to fight without further analysis of his psychological profile. If, prior to entering the war he was already problematic, after then gets even worse ... psychosis is such that any noise scares him ... any attempt to approach with other people becomes an unsolved problem ... isolated, with no means of communicating with other people, he builds himself an impenetrable cocoon ... scared, scares the loved ones, including his little sister, the one who nourishes brotherly love, almost obsessive. With a mother who does not understand his behavior, this misunderstanding increases insofar as the days go by, since his arrival, to the tragic outcome which is not shown to the spectator, only remaining on screen the child's face, forced to witness such dramatic scene (the film has the beginning: August 31 and ends just at the beginning of September). On a scale of 1 to 10, vote: 9

a gem about post- war life

[Kirpianuscus · 16 November 2019]

The character of Boris reminds me Constantin Treplyov from the play "The Seagull" by Cehov. And the work of Anton Kouzemin is just fine. But the splendid job of the young Claire Thoumelou is the axis of this portrait of a Russian family in France, the son coming from Chechenia, news about the carnage from Beslan , the traits of psychosis and lost in thoughts and powerful isolation of Boris and the symbol of lobster. A gem with profound significations.