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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play   Few filmmakers could rival Maurice Pialat&39;s facility for transforming autobiographical material into the stuff of Art and his third feature-film La Gueule ouverte The Mouth Agape stands as one of the director&39;s most intensely personal and most lacerating 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 (a star of several of Raúl Ruíz&39;s &39;90s works and of Jacques Rivette&39;s Jeanne la pucelle) portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness She and her prone body become the locus around which gather her son Philippe (Truffaut-veteran Philippe Léotard) his wife Nathalie (French screen icon Nathalie Baye in one of her earliest roles) and Monique&39;s husband Roger (Hubert Deschamps of Pialat&39;s early short Janine and Louis Malle&39;s Zazie dans le métro) In short order Monique recedes into the background of Philippe&39;s and Roger&39;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 The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Maurice Pialat&39;s astonishing feature-length masterwork La Gueule ouverte accompanied by nine Pialat shorts three narrative works from the earliest part of the director&39;s career and the six poetic essay-documentaries he shot in Turkey in the early &39;60s which alone total over two hours in length ----Special TWO-DISC Edition Including---- 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 17 minutes L&39;Ombre familière The Familiar Shadow - 1958 24 minutes Janine - 1961 17 minutes The six short 1964 essay-documentaries made by Maurice Pialat in and about Turkey Bosphore Bosporus - 14 minutes Byzance Byzantium - 12 minutes La Corne d&39;or The Golden Horn - 12 minutes Istanbul - 13 minutes Maître Galip Master Galip - 11 minutes Pehlivan - 12 minutes 12-minute 2004 interview with Pialat&39;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 8-minute 2004 interview with actress Nathalie Baye 11 minutes of footage from the shoot of La Gueule ouverte featuring commentary recorded in 2005 by actor Jean-François Balmer 16-minute 2004 interview with cinematographer Willy Kurant discussing his work with Pialat on the Turkish short-films 14-minute 1987 interview with Pialat about the Cinémathèque Française&39;s role in his film education 10-minute 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

Maurice Pialat directs this drama starring Monique Melinand as an elderly housewife in the later stages of terminal illness. Meanwhile, her husband (Hubert Deschamps) and disjointed family struggle to come to terms with the repercussions of her disease and impending death.