The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster”

Greece and Portugal are in deep shit, but Greece is in slightly deeper shit because its leading younger filmmaker, Yorgos Lanthimos—whose film “The Lobster” is now playing here—makes movies that shed no light whatsoever on the country’s troubles, and that in no way suggest that artistic practice develops in concert with and in response to practical circumstances.