Pity

5.00
    Pity
    2018

    Synopsis

    The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

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      Cast

      • Giannis DrakopoulosLawyer
      • Evi SaoulidouWife
      • Costas XikominosNikos
      • Pavlos MakridisSon
      • Makis PapadimitriouDry clean shop owner
      • Nota TserniafskiVictim's daughter
      • Georgina ChryskiotiGood neighbor
      • Kostas KotoulasGrandpa
      • Evdoxia AndroulidakiSecretary
      • Viktor ArditisMusic teacher

      Recommendations

      • 90

        The Hollywood Reporter

        Through its droll combo of stillness and churning dysfunction, perfectly embodied by Drakopoulos, Pity deconstructs the artifice of feeling and, most wickedly, movie sentimentality.
      • 87

        TheWrap

        Miraculously, Makridis doesn’t undercut the seriousness of Giannis’ plight with humor. The laughs derive naturally from Drakopoulos’ pitch-black performance.
      • 80

        Screen Daily

        Pity, which Makridis co-wrote with Yorgos Lanthimos’ regular collaborator Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Lobster), strikes a tonal balance between ruthless and wry, which positions it comfortably alongside the best of Greece’s current new wave.
      • 70

        Variety

        If Pity doesn’t quite have the shock of the new on its side, then, its sharpest passages nonetheless exert the bracing, mouth-shuddering tang of neat ouzo: You know how it’s going to taste, but it leaves you wincing anyway.
      • 58

        The Playlist

        The film has an identity problem. It’s uncertain what it wants to be. This is too damn bad because its first mode, a parody of male self-obsession, is perfectly satisfying; the comedy makes us shift in our seats, but the shifting is pleasurable, complemented by well-timed gags and a mesmerizingly selfish performance from its leading man, Yannis Drakopoulos.

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