Préparez vos Mouchoirs (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) (1978)
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The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed amalgam of the sentimental and sardonic. Gérard Depardieu plays an at-wit's-end husband, Raoul, who'll go to any lengths to sexually satisfy his wife, Solange (Carole… More The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed amalgam of the sentimental and sardonic. Gérard Depardieu plays an at-wit's-end husband, Raoul, who'll go to any lengths to sexually satisfy his wife, Solange (Carole Laure). Raoul decides that the best thing to cure Solange's boredom would be if she took a lover; thus, he chooses Stéphane (Patrick Dewaere) for the "job." But Stéphane isn't any more successful in arousing Solange than her husband had been. Eventually, it is a 13-year-old boy who quenches Solange's erotic yearnings. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as well as a French César award for Best Score (by Georges Delerue). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Bertrand Blier
- Written By
- Bertrand Blier
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Dec 17, 1978 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Bertrand Blier's audacious sex comedy won the Best Foreign Language Oscar of 1978.
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Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)
Going Places, which preceded this film by a year, is the Blier film to beat, but Handkerchiefs is one unruly, rioutously funny entry just the same. (The Academy, is must be noted, preferred this one, and the film took home the Best Foreign
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Cast
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Gérard Depardieu
as Raoul
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Patrick Dewaere
as Stephane
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Carole Laure
as Solange
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Riton Liebman
as Christian Beloeil
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Michel Serrault
as Neighbor
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Elenore Hirt
as Mrs. Beloeil
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Sylvie Joly
as Passerby
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Jean Rougerie
as Mr. Beloeil
- Gilberte Geniat
- André Lacombe
- Liliane Rovere
- André Thorent
- Michel Beaune
- David Gabison
- Roger Riffard
- Eleonore Hirt
