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The Lobster
Why this pick
Like High-Rise, it turns an immaculate, rule-bound environment into a deadpan social nightmare, using chilly design, abrasive satire and steadily escalating cruelty.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2015 1h 59m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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High-Rise
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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The Platform
Why this pick
Its stark vertical architecture makes class hierarchy brutally physical, sustaining the same claustrophobic institutional decay and bleakly ironic social critique.
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Snowpiercer
Why this pick
A sealed, highly stratified habitat becomes a ferocious allegory of privilege and collapse, with controlled visual world-building that gives way to violent disorder.
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Dogtooth
Why this pick
Its sealed-off household runs on arbitrary rules and unnervingly flat behaviour, delivering a similarly clinical, absurdist view of civilisation breaking under imposed order.
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The Tenant
Why this pick
This paranoid apartment nightmare shares High-Rise's hostile residential setting, alienated protagonist and disorienting sense that bourgeois domestic order is turning monstrous.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) living in a ravaged tower block, killing a white German Shepherd Dog and spit roasting it.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tom Hiddleston
Dr. Robert Laing
Luke Evans
Richard Wilder
Reece Shearsmith
Nathan Steele
Peter Ferdinando
Cosgrove
Daniel Renton Skinner
Simmons
Sienna Guillory
Jane Sheridan
Tony Way
Robert the Caretaker
Leila Mimmack
Laura