Give Me Pity!

Released Mar 3, 2023

1h 20m

Comedy

Musical

Mystery & Thriller

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Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.

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Ava

This movie makes its point in the first monologue and then proceeds to beat that D.O.A. horse for the rest of what will be the longest and most fruitless 80 minutes of your life. The "twist" is comically terrible. Everything about this movie tries so hard to be artistic while having absolutely nothing original to say. I feel like this movie was made for people who want to seem deep but don't really understand metaphor and so need to be bashed over the head with it for the full length of a movie before they can come away with what amounts to a very normative take on fame and performance. The only reason I gave it one star instead of 1/2 of a star is that the dancers were very good. They don't deserve the negative review. Unfortunately every bit of the rest of this movie does.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/03/23

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Mad Poet Society

It's particularly interesting when a film manages to subvert the expectations you might have at the beginning so thoroughly and compellingly. Before seeing this film, I knew nothing about either the writer or the main actress which, is probably one of the better ways to see this movie because it allows the audience to immerse themselves in the "world" created by the story. This is a very self-aware movie that requires patience to unravel all the layers presented here but, it definitely pays off. See it if you're looking for something different for a change.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/21/23

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Amanda Kramer

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Cricket Arrison

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Sophie von Haselberg

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Reshma Gajjar

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Shelley Long

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M. Diesel

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Marina Ashioti

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A unique vision, but sadly less than the sum of its parts.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 11, 2023

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Peter Bradshaw

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A genuinely strange and unsettling creation whose meaning and form can’t quite be pinned down.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 7, 2023

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

One of the boldest filmmakers working today, with Give Me Pity! Kramer demonstrates she is only going from strength to strength.

Feb 11, 2022

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

Watching the whole thing might be exhausting if you aren’t devoted to its exact type of camp artiness. Still, every section is inventive and alive.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 13, 2023

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Dulcie Pearce

The Sun (UK)

Innovative and experimental, Sissy’s live unravelling is boundary-pushing. But it is also challenging to stick with when, at times, the bold film-making veers into being simply bizarre.

Nov 11, 2023

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Martin Unsworth

Starburst

It’s not an easy watch, you’ll either be drawn into the kitschiness or turned off by the awkwardness of the star who’s desperate for success and adoration and the alarmingly inappropriate skits.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 6, 2023

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Synopsis

Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.

Director: Amanda Kramer
Producer: Rhianon Jones, Riccardo Maddalosso, Samuel Gursky
Screenwriter: Amanda Kramer
Distributor: Utopia
Production Co: Irving Harvey, Smudge Films, Neon Heart Productions
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 3, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 7, 2023
Runtime: 1h 20m

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