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Love Without Pity

1991, Movie, R, 94 mins

Love Without Pity: Review

The story in LOVE WITHOUT PITY, a French coming-of-age romance, is a familiar one, but it's told with unusual sensitivity and perceptiveness by writer-director Eric Rochant. The romantic hero, Hippo (Hippolyte Girardot, who resembles a Gallic Emilio Estevez), is called a parasite at one point. The shoe fits, but he's an uncommonly likable leech. Hippo has structured his life around love. Or so he says. Sharing an apartment with his younger brother Xavier (Jean-Marie Rollin... read more leave a comment