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A Pity (2022)
Director: Kevin Barth
Cast: David Agranov, James C. Burns, Joely Fisher, Sarah Carter
Runtime92 min
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A disgraced politician takes a vow of silence after a public scandal abruptly ends his campaign, and his marriage. In self imposed exile at a former monastery on a lake, he is confronted by the women in his life, and as night descends, a mysterious visitor from another time.
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A Pity, a 2022 film directed by Kevin Barth, has not received widespread critical or audience attention yet. The drama about a disgraced politician finding solace in self-imposed exile at a former monastery has yet to be reviewed by major critics or earn significant awards recognition. Its reception among general audiences is currently unknown.
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Fans of thoughtful, introspective character studies will appreciate the nuanced performance of David Agranov as the disgraced politician in 2022's 'A Pity', directed by Kevin Barth. The film's focus on themes of guilt, isolation, and redemption offers a compelling dramatic exploration of how one man grapples with the consequences of his past actions.
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A Pity About the Girl and Other Stories is a collection of mystery stories by the British thriller writer Michael Gilbert, first published in 2008 by the British company Robert Hale and unpublished in the United States. It contains 14 previously uncollected stories, as well as an introduction by John Cooper and two appendices. Some of the stories feature one or another of Gilbert's many recurring characters that he created throughout his long career of writing both novels and short stories. Gilbert, who was appointed CBE in 1980, was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association. The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1988 and in 1990 he was presented Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award. The locales vary from London to Latin America and the time frame from the present back to the Victorian days of Sherlock Holmes. A number of them, such as the title story, "A Pity About the Girl", and the two concerning Colonel Cristobal Ocampas, have an unexpected grimness about them. "Michael was an exceptionally fine storyteller, but he's hard to classify," said one of his British publishers after his death. "He's not a hard-boiled writer in the classic sense, but there is a hard edge to him, a feeling within his work that not all of society is rational, that virtue is not always rewarded". This is particularly true of the last story in the collection, "By The Pricking of My Thumbs".
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