pitiless
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Pitiless yet tender, Gaspar Noé’s latest split-screen death trip follows an aging, ailing Parisian couple through their final days.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022
Pitiless, grainy close-ups capture him sipping tea with a mother and child — perhaps his brother’s family — in a blank apartment and, later, alongside a mullah in a mosque.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
The Pitiless Storm shows a middle-aged Labour politician coming to support the notion of Scottish independence.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2014
His latest album is “We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves” and he recently played the Mercury Lounge on the Lower East Side.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2011
He tamely allowed the province of Holland to be invaded by the same ungrateful bishop of Liege, John the Pitiless, whom his wife's father and his own uncle had re-established in his justly forfeited authority.
From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Grattan, Thomas Colley
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