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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

5.8

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Original title

Préparez vos mouchoirs

Year

1978

Running time

109 min.

Country

France

Director

Bertrand Blier

Screenwriter

Bertrand Blier

Cast

Music

Georges Delerue

Cinematography

Jean Penzer

Producer

Co-production France-Belgium;

Belga Films, C.A.P.A.C, Les Films Ariane, SODEP

Genre

Comedy | Romantic Comedy

Synopsis

Thoroughly safe and mild compared to Going Places--the anarchic, something-to-offend-everyone earlier collaboration of Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and French director Bertrand Blier--the 1977 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is an outwardly civilized satire with a heart so dark it's a wonder you can see the film's images. Depardieu plays the bellicose but well-meaning husband of a beautiful and depressed woman (Carole Laure) who wants to be pregnant but isn't. Hubby's solution to her woes is to talk another man (Dewaere), a complete stranger, into becoming her lover. When that fails to lift her spirits and fill her womb, the two men--both of them now slavishly devoted to the cult of her misery--bring in a boy (Riton) with whom Laure's character seems to be in perfect emotional synch. As with many of Blier's films, Handkerchiefs is an intellectually brutal but slaphappy variation on traditional comedies of manners. What makes this film a bit different was its obvious jibe at frothier French sex farces of the day (Yves Robert's Pardon Mon Affaire, for example, was released the same year) as well as then-contemporary adult comedy-dramas from the U.S. about the vicissitudes of relationships (Blume in Love, Kramer vs. Kramer). Seen in that context, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs looks like a wolf in sheep's clothing, though it isn't necessary to bring any context to Blier's acid wit.

Awards: 1978: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture

1978: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Film

1978: César Awards: Best Music

1978: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Screenplay

1978: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Best Picture.

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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

1978

Bertrand Blier

5.8

(366)