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The Mouth Agape ( French: La gueule ouverte) is a 1974 French drama 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. [1]
May 8, 1974 · The Mouth Agape: Directed by Maurice Pialat. With Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Mélinand. Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.
- (1.3K)
- Drama
- Maurice Pialat
- 1974-05-08
Unblinking in its surveyal of a sick woman’s final days, The Mouth Agape bears tough, unadorned witness to the realities of end-of-life care. Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns.
Directed by Maurice Pialat. Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle to express, or feel, their love for one another. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew.
- (2.7K)
- Les Films La Boétie, Lido Films
- Maurice Pialat
The Mouth Agape | Rotten Tomatoes. Released May 8, 1974 1h 22m Drama. List. Monique (Monique Melinand) is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Maurice Pialat
May 31, 2024 · The Mouth Agape is not about the grieving process, infidelity, terminal illness, or even the boring lives of the provincial French. It’s about how, as Pialat favorite Van Gogh observed, “the sadness will last forever.”
The Mouth Agape. Monique is in the late stages of terminal illness. Her philandering, alcoholic husband Roger, her son Philippe, unfaithful like his father, and her daughter-in-law Nathalie (screen icon Nathalie Baye, in one of her earliest roles) gather around her. We observe them playing with life as she dies. 2 IMDb 7.3 1 h 23 min 1974.
