Rent The Mouth Agape (1974)
3.9 of 5 from 64 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
- La Gueule ouverte, stands as one of the director’s most intensely personal – and most lacerating – works. It is a film about illness: a condition of the body, and a name for the capacity to injure the ones who love us the most. Monique Melinand portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness. She – and her prone body – become the locus around which gather her son Philippe (Philippe Leotard), his wife Nathalie (Nathalie Baye), and Monique’s husband Roger (Hubert Deschamps). As events unfold, we are once more reminded that, in the work of Maurice Pialat, what seems absent ultimately makes its presence felt with terrible force.
- Actors:
- Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Mélinand, Henri Saulquin, Alain Grestau, Anna Gayane, Mireille Laurenchet, Corinne Derel, Marie-Blanche Dehaux, Christian Dehaux, Jean-Dominique de la Rochefoucauld, Jeanne Dulac, Lucien Dulac, Anne-Claude Girard, Hélène Sautreau, Berthe Dischamps, Georges Vimard, Françoise Pavy, Aline Brunel
- Directors:
- Maurice Pialat
- Writers:
- Maurice Pialat
- Aka:
- La Gueule Ouverte
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Masters of Cinema, Top Films
- Countries:
- France
