Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Bertrand Blier and starring Carole Laure, Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Riton Liebman. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards. Critic Arion Berger called it "a romantic comedy that bears no resemblance to romantic comedy as a genre".
Plot
Raoul and his wife Solange are eating in a restaurant when Raoul expresses concern with Solange's apparent depression, as she eats little, suffers migraines and insomnia, and also sometimes faints. He finds another man in the room, Stéphane, to be her lover and hopefully enliven her. Stéphane is puzzled by Raoul's plan, but gives in to his desperate appeals for help. The two men take turns sleeping with Solange, and both try to impregnate her without success, believing a lack of a child to be the source of her depression. Stéphane also shares his love for the music of Mozart and Pocket Books with the two and their neighbourhood grocer. The music inspires the men, but not Solange.
Awards
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| author | Bertrand Blier |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best International Feature Film |
| director | Bertrand Blier |
| editor | Claudine Merlin |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | age difference boarding school boys camp bully eat explore make up math prodigy mozart one night pocket books sleep walk wolfgang amadeus mozart |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best International Feature Film International Submission to the Academy Awards |
| producer | Alexandre Mnouchkine Georges Dancigers Paul Claudon |
| publisher | Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique |
| theme | romantic comedy |