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The Mouth Agape

Original title: La gueule ouverte
  • 19741974
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 22m
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7.4/10
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The Mouth Agape (1974)
Drama
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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.1K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
45,318
717
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    • Director
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Writer
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Stars
      • Nathalie Baye
      • Hubert Deschamps
      • Philippe Léotard
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    • Director
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Writer
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Stars
      • Nathalie Baye
      • Hubert Deschamps
      • Philippe Léotard
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    • 8User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Hubert Deschamps and Monique Mélinand in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Nathalie Baye in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Marie-Blanche Dehaux in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, and Monique Mélinand in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Nathalie Baye and Philippe Léotard in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Philippe Léotard and Monique Mélinand in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Hubert Deschamps and Philippe Léotard in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Hubert Deschamps and Monique Mélinand in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Philippe Léotard and Monique Mélinand in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Nathalie Baye and Philippe Léotard in The Mouth Agape (1974)
    Philippe Léotard and Monique Mélinand in The Mouth Agape (1974)

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    Nathalie Baye
    Nathalie Baye
    • Nathalie
    Hubert Deschamps
    Hubert Deschamps
    • Roger le père, 'Le Garçu'
    Philippe Léotard
    Philippe Léotard
    • Philippe, le fils
    Monique Mélinand
    • Monique, la mère
    Henri Saulquin
    Alain Grestau
    Anna Gayane
    Mireille Laurenchet
    Corinne Derel
    • Corinne
    Marie-Blanche Dehaux
    • Corinne
    Christian Dehaux
    Jean-Dominique de la Rochefoucauld
      Jeanne Dulac
      • Jeanne
      Lucien Dulac
      Anne-Claude Girard
      • Anne-Claude
      • (as Annie Claude Girard)
      Hélène Sautreau
      Berthe Dischamps
      Georges Vimard
      • Director
        • Maurice Pialat
      • Writer
        • Maurice Pialat
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      • Trivia
        Maurice Pialat wanted to show with that film the cancer and the agony of his own mother. He shot in Auvergne (France), close to where he spent his childhood.
      • Soundtracks
        COSI FAN TUTTE
        Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (uncredited)
        Deutsche Grammophon
        B.P. 138 861
        (Atto Primo: Scena 5. Recitativo "Non v'e più tempo, amici" - No 9 Quintetto e Coro "De scrivermi ogni giorno" / Scena 6: Recitativo "Dove son ?" - No 10 Terzettino "Soave sia il vento") song title uncredited
        Conducted by Eugen Jochum (uncredited)
        Fiordiligi: Irmgard Seefried (uncredited)
        Drabella: Nan Merriman (uncredited)
        Ferrando: Ernst Haefliger (uncredited)
        Guglielmo: Hermann Prey (uncredited)
        Don Alfonso: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (uncredited)
        Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker (uncredited)

      User reviews8

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      10/10
      Beautiful
      I won't give anything away by saying this is about the reactions of the close relatives of a woman who is dying. It is a stunning, absorbing and beautiful study of these people, and I was totally entranced, I would have been happy for it to be twice as long. The emotions portrayed were so honest, with no hint of gloss or sentimentality. The human condition has never been better-portrayed.
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      • Oct 7, 2017

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      • Release date
        • May 8, 1974 (France)
      • Country of origin
        • France
      • Language
        • French
      • Also known as
        • Die Qual vor dem Ende
      • Production companies
        • Lido Films
        • Les Films de la Boétie
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 22 minutes
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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