Pity

Joanna

WOW WOW WOOOOWW! Every frame is perfectly thought out. Every movement, every minuscule sound was perfectly placed. One of the most beautiful films I've seen.

nica

Steadily progresses towards madness, ending on two perfect notes. This is an exquisite new member of the Greek New Wave films. The humor and absurdity is so in sync with mine, while making perfect sense in terms of narrative developments. May Babis Makridis get to keep making films wherever and however he wishes.

MATTEO BITTANTI

A radical reinvention of several genres, including drama & melodrama, comedy & thriller. Watch and learn, Lars Von Trier.

Jason

Made from a script co-written by Yorgos L.'s screenwriter, Efthymis Filippou, PITY mines a vein of jet black absurdist humour that will be familiar to viewers of recent Greek films of a certain vintage. What makes PITY more successful than any of Lanthimos's admittedly-wonderful films is its integration of the comical and philosophical within the framework of a total formal integrity. I thought of Charles Schulz.

dionysus67

Another 'Weird Wave' indictment on the (Greek) family, which has a point to make with respect to the ideology of pity. Yet its exaggerated, in its OCD sterilization, depiction of the nouveaux riches milieu of seaside Attica suburbs suffers from lack of empathy and also from one-dimensional characterization that culminates in an inverted lens on the (human) species. Essentially, it's a reactionary film. Pity, really.

Wee Hunk

I hate pity. At least that's what I tell myself. And yet sometimes I fall into situations where I seem to dwell in it. Part of it is in the way you tell the story to others. Is it a better story when you're a bit indulgent with your need? Or do you downplay it so that you can get a stronger reaction? The people around this guy should know that he's a pity whore. Now we know why Herr R runs amok.

Matthew Martens

Sour by design, which is fine, but Pity's critique of pity's banality can't overcome its own, despite the accelerating energy of its equally over-familiar outrageousness.

Pedja

One of the most significant anti-hero of modern European Cinema. Also, he should be very important for some social analysis of the big mistakes in the 21st century time.