Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

6.9R105 minDirector: Bertrand Blier

1978 film by Bertrand Blier

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (French: Préparez vos mouchoirs) 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".

The film tells the story of a ménage à trois in which two men share a woman to cure her of an unexplained depression, with many symptoms. Eventually, she begins an affair with an underage boy. The film employs heavy references to historical musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, combined with the music of the film's composer Georges Delerue, who won the César Award for Best Original Music. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs was a critical success.

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What is Get Out Your Handkerchiefs about?
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) — Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Step
Is Get Out Your Handkerchiefs based on a true story?
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Is Get Out Your Handkerchiefs scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.