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 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, All Movie Guide

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Complete Cast:

Director(s):

Bertrand Blier

Writer(s):

Bertrand Blier

Producer(s):

Georges Dancigers, Paul Claudon, Alexandre Mnouchkine

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

R(Adult Humor, Adult Situations, Nudity, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Not For Children)

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• 1978 - Get Out Your Handkerchiefs - French Academy of Cinema - Best Music