La Gueule Ouverte (1973)
Directed by Maurice Pialat
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Family Drama, Social Problem Film |
Run Time - 85 min. |
Countries - France |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he tends attentively to her in her last days while remaining unchanged in character. The son and daughter-in-law, whose marriage is somewhat sterile, have similarly penetrating interactions with the dying mother.
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elderly, grandmother, husband-and-wife, marital-problems, terminal-illness, cancer