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>
This movie is quite similar to the American film "Rushmore," in that both films portray sensitive, intelligent young teen boys becoming infatuated with adult women twice their age. Major difference: Blier the guts that the director of "Rushmore" did not have.
"Rushmore," like most films about teen boys having crushes on older women, took the easy way out. The boy falls madly in love with his teacher, but the romance is never consummated. Instead, he encourages her, at the end of the film, to continue her affair with a much older married man. So, the message is the older men have the right to take advantage of younger women, yet not vice versa?
In Blier's film, the relationship of boy and his adult crush is consummated. Therefore, the film breaks the mold. "Rushmore" merely follows a traditional (and just plain worn out) plot pattern.