La gueule ouverte
A dutiful son (Philippe Léotard) takes his mother for radiation treatment in a Paris hospital; when she is pronounced incurable, he accompanies her back to her home in Auvergne and persuades his reluctant wife (Nathalie Baye) to join him. Director Maurice Pialat approaches the grim predictability of illness and death with the same unflinching, piercing gaze he brings to the chaos of relationships exploding with life, finding, there, amid seeming futility, the moments that actually sustain us.
Blu-ray, color, in French with English subtitles, 82 min. DIR: Maurice Pialat. CAST: Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps.
