La Gueule Ouverte (Masters of Cinema) DVD, 1974

aka The Mouth Agape

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Film Description

Maurice Pialat's third feature-film, La Gueule ouverte (The Mouth Agape), is one of his most intensely personal 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 most.

Monique Mélinand portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness. She - and her prone body - become the locus around which gather her son Philippe, his wife Nathalie, and Monique's husband Roger. In short order, Monique recedes into the background of Philippe's and Roger's network of respective adulteries. But as the final, crushingly eloquent succession of shots starts to unreel, we are once more reminded that, in the work of Maurice Pialat, that which seems absent ultimately makes its presence felt with terrible force.

Film Information

Director - Maurice Pialat

Produced - 1974

Main Language - French with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film

Cast - Nathalie Baye, Monique MÃ©linand, Hubert Deschamps

DVD Details

Certificate:	12	Publisher:	Eureka / Masters of Cinema	Region:	2
Length:	87 mins	Cat No:	EKA40290
Format:	DVD Colour

DVD Extras

2 discs
Gorgeous new anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio
New and improved English subtitle translations
Three early short films by Maurice Pialat: Drôles de bobines [Funny Reels] (1957), L'Ombre familière [The Familiar Shadow] (1958), Janine (1961)
The six short 1964 essay-documentaries made by Maurice Pialat in, and about, Turkey: Bosphore [Bosporus] / Byzance [Byzantium] / La Corne d'or [The Golden Horn] / Istanbul / Maître Galip [Master Galip] / Pehlivan
2004 interview with Pialat's ex-wife and frequent collaborator, Micheline Pialat, conducted by former Cahiers du cinéma editor-in-chief, and current director of the Cinémathèque Française, Serge Toubiana
2004 interview with actress Nathalie Baye
Footage from the shoot of La Gueule ouverte, featuring commentary recorded in 2005 by actor Jean-François Balmer
2004 interview with cinematographer Willy Kurant discussing his work with Pialat on the Turkish short-films
1987 interview with Pialat about the Cinémathèque Française's role in his film education
Excerpt from a 2002 masterclass with Pialat, discussing the film Maître Galip
Original theatrical trailer for La Gueule ouverte, along with trailers for the six other Maurice Pialat films released by The Masters of Cinema Series
36-page booklet containing a new essay by critic Adrian Martin, and newly translated interviews with Maurice Pialat.