Efthimis Filippou

Pity

Credits

Original title :

Oiktos

Country :

Grèce

Year :

2018

Director :

Babis Makridis

Version :

vostEN

Duration :

97 minutes

Actors :

Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Nota Tserniafski

Awards :

World Cinema Competition, Sundance 2018 ; Official Competition, Luxembourg City Film Festival

synopsis

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, 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.

Makridis and his co-writer Efthimis Filippou create a parallel universe that shares many similarities with reality, although it is much bleaker and funnier.

Cineuropa

A disturbing and oftentimes very funny satire-drama, "Pity" is about that complex, primal human craving called empathy and the distance we're willing to go to summon it.

Robert-Ebert.com