Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
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| Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | |
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| Directed by | Bertrand Blier |
| Written by | Bertrand Blier |
| Starring | Carole Laure Gérard Depardieu Patrick Dewaere Michel Serrault Riton Liebman |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release date | 11 January 1978 |
Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (French: Préparez vos mouchoirs) is a 1978 French romantic comedy film directed by Bertrand Blier. The film received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards. The film had a total of 1,321,087 admissions in France. [1]
Plot
Solange (Laure) is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul (Depardieu) seeks to save her by enlisting Stéphane (Dewaere), a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stéphane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian (Liebman) , the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.
Cast
- Gérard Depardieu as Raoul
- Carole Laure as Solange
- Patrick Dewaere as Stéphane
- Michel Serrault as Le voisin
- Eléonore Hirt as Mme Belœil
- Jean Rougerie as M. Belœil
- Sylvie Joly as The passer-by
- Riton Liebman as Christian Belœil (under the name of Riton)
- Liliane Rovère as Marthe the barmaid (« Bernadette »)
- Michel Beaune as The doctor in the street
- Roger Riffard as The doctor of the port
- André Thorent as The teacher
- André Lacombe as The councillor
- David Gabison as Le quidam (under the name of Alain David Gabison)
- Gilberte Géniat as The usherette
- Jean Perin as A worker
- Bertrand de Hautefort as An officer
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