http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEGOI3L3IYc

What you may need to know:

1. In a near dystopian future, singletons have 45 days to find love or risk being transformed into an animal and sent to live in the woods, such are the rules of The City.

2. In Coppers it’s more like 45 minutes.

3. Just go ugly early Colin. He drank melted ice cream for 2 months to put on weight for the film. I also drink ice cream after I return home from Coppers, alone.

4. The film was bookies favourite to win in Cannes this year and it didn’t disappoint. It nabbed the Jury Prize. Dheepan (2015) won the top gong this year.

5. It is an Irish Co-Production and was filmed around Dublin and Kerry.

6. It’s Yorgos Lanthimos’ first English Language film. He has won many prizes before.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Your pot or mine?

Release Date: October 16