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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

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Préparez vos Mouchoirs (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).


The film had a total of 1,321,087 admissions in France.[4]
The film has received positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes counting nine favourable reviews out of ten.[5] New York claims the audience clapped and hissed at the New York Film Festival and that Get Out Your Handkerchiefs was "courageous and enjoyable."[3] Time Out called it "an erratic, often hilarious movie."[6] In his 2002 Movie & Video Guide, Leonard Maltin gives the film three and a half stars and calls it "disarming" and "highly unconventional."[7] Arion Berger writes that "to experience Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is to watch a master at the peak of his powers."[1] An Epinions critic wrote "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is good for some laughs while flaunting somewhat outrageous disregard for standard sexual mores."[8]
The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[7] and was named the best film of 1978 by the National Society of Film Critics.[9]
Not all reviews were favourable, as People wrote the humour could be "downright incomprehensible" and "so airy it floats right off the screen."[9]
Variety wrote that "a rather bizarre mixture of gritty comedy, satire and delving into female status makes this a literary film. There is a lot of talk, sometimes good, but often edgy and too often pointless in lieu of a more robust visual dynamism and life


Release Date: December 18, 1978 @ The Paris


Distrib: New Line Cinema

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