unsparingly

In the 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” he wrote unsparingly about his struggles with addiction to alcohol and drugs, as well as his need for affirmation and fame.

It contains what is surely one of the cinema’s most upsetting, unsparingly graphic depictions of the atomic blast and its casualties.

The film is nostalgic, but not for the Australian suburbs nor the era, which Stolevski depicts unsparingly as claustrophobic and sometimes simply bigoted.

“It’s in my heart,” he says of his need to create and nurture life, to bring color and light to a world that was once so unsparingly bleak.

Few works survey the span of a life — its highs and lows — more thoroughly and unsparingly, from the pastoral to the hysterical, from raucous existence to pianississimo death.