On Monday, Luxembourg's British & Irish Film Season featured two off-beat films, Black Mountain Poets and The Lobster.

The first, Black Mountain Poets, is set in Wales and features two sisters, daughters of a respectable doctor, who steal instead of paying for anything. They find themselves in a situation impersonating two freestyle poets on a retreat. They have their ups and downs and slowly, but surely, they both find themselves and each other, but not before a set of hilarious adventures.

Producer Jon Rennie participated in a post-screening Q&A session via Skype and explained that the film worked due to the talents and skills of the actors who were given a screenplay basically without dialogue, therefore relying heavily on improvisation. Using just one camera the crew recorded over 4 hours of usable material but the cutting room floor was littered with unused scenes and entire characters were cut out, to ensure a cohesive 90-minute film. This was the 3rd such film he has led and hopefully will not be the last. Very, very funny in places, and great mountain scenes cpatured in their autumn splendour.

Second up has the hugely-anticipated Lobster, starring Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell, a wacky comedy set in a dystopian world where people have 45 days to fall in love or be turned into a an animal. Colin Farrell's character, David, has recently lost his wife and is sent to the hotel managed by Olivia Colman's character and her partner. The 45 days can be extended by killing loners living in the woods. A man without much emotion or feeling, he comes across many different characters while there, all with different quirkes, including a woman with nosebleeds, a bald man, a man with a limp, a woman who likes to eat rabbits, a woman who likes biscuits...

This is a love story with a difference, with superb acting