The Mouth Agape (1974)
- Original title
- La Gueule ouverte
- Directed by
- Maurice Pialat
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A family deals with a woman's terminal illness. Her husband and son struggle with their own messy lives as she nears death.
intimaterealistharshmelancholicdomesticunflinchingslow-pacedemotional
What happens
The Mouth Agape (French: La Gueule Ouverte) is a 1974 French tragedy film directed by Maurice Pialat. It depicts, in a cinematic realist fashion, a woman going through a terminal illness and also dealing with the tumultuous lives of her husband and son. It was one of the least commercially successful of Pialat's films. It was the third film of the ten that he directed before his death in January 2003. It is also known under the titles The Gaping Mouth and The Gaping Maw. The film stars Monique Mélinand, Philippe Léotard, Hubert Deschamps, and Nathalie Baye in the main roles. Néstor Almendros, the Spanish cinematographer known for working with the Nouvelle Vague directors François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, collaborated with Pialat for the first time on The Mouth Agape. The title is a poetic reference to the open mouth position sometimes found in corpses. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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