Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
(1978)
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
(1978)
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| Gérard Depardieu | ... |
Raoul
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| Carole Laure | ... |
Solange
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Patrick Dewaere | ... |
Stéphane
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Michel Serrault | ... |
Le voisin /
Neighbor
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Eléonore Hirt | ... |
Madame Beloeil
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Jean Rougerie | ... |
Mr. Beloeil
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Sylvie Joly | ... |
La passante /
Passerbeil
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Riton Liebman | ... |
Christian Beloeil
(as Riton)
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Liliane Rovère | ... |
Bartender
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Michel Beaune | ... |
Le médecin dans la rue
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Roger Riffard | ... |
Le médecin du port
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André Thorent | ... |
Le professeur
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André Lacombe | ... |
Le délégué syndical
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David Gabison | ... |
Le quidam
(as Alain David Gabison)
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Gilberte Géniat | ... |
L'ouvreuse du théâtre
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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, Stephane 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, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Complex, very funny, sad, very French look at love and sexual dynamics, with terrific acting all around.
Gerard Depardieu plays a man who truly loves his wife, but can't understand her or her depression. So he decides to get her a lover to cheer her up. But it doesn't work, and now two men are bewitched and befuddled by the sad, repressed Solange.
Ultimately only a love affair with a 13 year old boy who in many ways is the most mature character in the film gives her joy.
Transgressive, uncomfortable, and tweaking both sides of the war of the sexes equally; men are fools who can only look at women through a narrow prism, and women are complex and weird to the point of absurdity, this is a film that makes me laugh and cringe (in a good way) in equal measure.