Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

Original title

Préparez vos mouchoirs

Directed by

Bertrand Blier

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 147 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two men try to cheer up a depressed woman by sharing her as a lover. She eventually finds happiness with a teenage boy.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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