[Vocabulary] Un-sefl-sparing

[Cynthia Garett]

Hi,

I would like to know what does "un-self-sparing" mean here. Is it "generous"?

The scenes aren’t technical—Kechiche isn’t after a catalogue of lesbian sexual practices and pleasures—but emotional, and they capture the very vulnerability, the uninhibited, un-self-sparing exertion to exhaustion that marks the actors’ performances. At the very least, the movie reflects what the actors gave—even if they gave more than they ever expected to give, and perhaps more than any actor should ever be asked to give.

Thank you.

 

[Tdol]

It means that they gave everything they had- they didn't spare themselves:

spare - definition. American English definition of spare by Macmillan Dictionary (definition 4)

 

[Cynthia Garett]

thank you.

 

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