Initially stricken when his wife passes into a coma, a soft-spined lawyer begins to draw a sense of satisfaction from all the compassion, kindness, and attention of his peers. He soon becomes addicted to their pity, so much so that he now feels unhappy when happy—and happy only when unhappy.

With its fixed-position camerawork, peculiar line delivery, and lashings of gallows humor, Babis Makridis’s sophomore feature is unmistakably the progeny of the Greek Weird Wave. Co-written by Efthymis Filippou (Dogtooth), Pity is a compelling dark comedy played with a perversely straight face.