In a near-future dystopia, single people are taken to a hotel where they must find a romantic partner within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into the woods. Yorgos Lanthimos's deadpan, disquieting fable — winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes — is a pitch-black satire of social coercion and the arbitrary conventions of love, delivered in a flat, ceremonial register that makes the absurdity feel horrifyingly plausible.
