Movie · Comedy · Independent

From the Award-Winning director and writer of POOR THINGS, THE FAVOURITE and THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER comes a darkly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death... According to the rules of The City, single people are arrested and then transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. * Winner of the JURY PRIZE at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival ** 2017 Academy Award Nominee for 'Best Original Screenplay" by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou at the 2017 Academy Awards.

2015 · 1h 58m

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From the Award-Winning director and writer of POOR THINGS, THE FAVOURITE and THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER comes a darkly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death... According to the rules of The City, single people are arrested and then transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. * Winner of the JURY PRIZE at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival ** 2017 Academy Award Nominee for 'Best Original Screenplay" by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou at the 2017 Academy Awards.

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Average 7.6
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Fresh 234
Rotten 35

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Studio
Element Pictures
Released
2015
Run Time
1 hr 58 min
Rated
15
Regions of Origin
United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece, France, Netherlands, United States
© 2015 2015 Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Faliro House Productions SA, Haut et Court, Lemming Film, The British Film Institute, Channel Four Television Corporation

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Original Audio
English (United Kingdom), English, English (Ireland), French
Audio

English (United Kingdom) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)