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"The Mouth Agape" shares the same subject matter with Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" which came out a couple of years earlier. I like to think of this film as the Yin to Cries and Whispers Yang, as it stripes away the melodrama and heightened sensibility that was prevalent in the cinematography of Bergman's film. Pialat directs this film with a cold, detached nuance. His methodical ...
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.
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.
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1 juil. 2016 · Cohen Film Collection is proud to present for the first time in HD, a collection of films by director Maurice Pialat, the iconoclastic French auteur often called "the French Cassavetes." Volume One includes the family drama The Mouth Agape with Nathalie Baye, the slice-of-life film about teenagers in suburban France Graduate First, and Loulou, the tale of tortured love of which Andrew Sarris ...
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The Mouth Agape. Monique (Monique Melinand) is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband, Roger (Hubert Deschamps), carries on with ...
- Drama
31 mai 2024 · The Mouth Agape. — Maurice Pialat. The title of Maurice Pialat’s 1974 film La Gueule Ouverte is reminiscent of something Francis Bacon said about his paintings of the pope screaming, reacting against accusations of pure shock value by saying he wanted to “paint the scream and not the horror.”. Bacon’s argument is that he began from ...
