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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Original title: Préparez vos mouchoirs
  • 19781978
  • RR
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
4K
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Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, and Michel Serrault in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure, the film follows a love triangle between the characters that turns both more comedic and more emotional. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1979, as well as the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Picture.
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A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
4K
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    • Bertrand Blier
    • Bertrand Blier
  • Stars
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Carole Laure
    • Patrick Dewaere
    • Bertrand Blier
    • Bertrand Blier
  • Stars
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Carole Laure
    • Patrick Dewaere
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 27User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Eléonore Hirt and Michel Serrault in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Michel Serrault in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Carole Laure in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
    Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, and Riton Liebman in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

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    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Raoul
    Carole Laure
    Carole Laure
    • Solange
    Patrick Dewaere
    Patrick Dewaere
    • Stéphane
    Michel Serrault
    Michel Serrault
    • Le voisin…
    Eléonore Hirt
    Eléonore Hirt
    • Madame Beloeil
    Jean Rougerie
    Jean Rougerie
    • Mr. Beloeil
    Sylvie Joly
    • La passante…
    Riton Liebman
    • Christian Beloeil
    • (as Riton)
    Liliane Rovère
    Liliane Rovère
    • Bartender
    Michel Beaune
    Michel Beaune
    • Le médecin dans la rue
    Roger Riffard
    • Le médecin du port
    André Thorent
    André Thorent
    • Le professeur
    André Lacombe
    • Le délégué syndical
    David Gabison
    • Le quidam
    • (as Alain David Gabison)
    Gilberte Géniat
    Gilberte Géniat
    • L'ouvreuse du théâtre
    Jean Perin
    • Un ouvrier
    Bertrand De Hautefort
    • Un officier
    Philippe Brigaud
    Philippe Brigaud
    • Le docteur Papillon
    • (uncredited)
      • Bertrand Blier
      • Bertrand Blier
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    • Trivia
      In a 1979 episode of Sneak Previews, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel praised the film, calling it "an offbeat, sometimes very serious comedy" that is "always surprising," going on to say that "`Get Out Your Handkerchiefs' is about a man - albeit a very young and small one - who really respects a woman, and that's a refreshing emotion to see, as is the whole movie [...]". In a huge disagreement, co-host and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert opened his rebuttal by saying, "In other words I take it you liked this film." Ebert quickly followed by saying it was one of the worst films he had ever seen ("I thought it was decadent, depraved, dumb, stupid, the characters were unattractive..."). His final word on the film, in a line similar to one later made famous in his scathing print review of the 1996 ensemble mob comedy "Mad Dog Time," was "I think it should be cut up to make ukulele picks."
    • Alternate versions
      Due to possible problems with the Child Protection Act UK cinema and video versions were cut by 5 secs to edit a scene where Christian looks at Solange's naked body as she lays in bed. The cuts were later waived for the 15-rated 2007 DVD.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: The North Avenue Irregulars/The Last Wave/Agatha/Norma Rae/Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Solange Et Christian
      Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre

    User reviews27

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    French Twist
    Describing the plot of this film is rather pointless, since it reads in black and white rather absurdly, even for a comedy. But it works! The acting is great, (including a handsome and youthful Depardieu before he turned into a sloppy behemoth), the jokes are funny and the direction and camerawork make you feel like you've been dropped into a Van Gogh. What I like about French movies or at least what i used to like, was their ability to transport you into their wonderful culture for the duration of the film. Over the past 20 years however, French cinema for many dynamic cultural and economic reasons, has slowly allowed its identity to slip away. If you've never been to France or are just yearning to take a return trip for 90 minutes or so, this film will give you as good a taste of the French way and outlook on life, as a 2 week Frommers trip.
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    • Release date
      • December 17, 1978 (United States)
      • France
      • Belgium
      • French
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    • Filming locations
      • Restaurant Le Wepler, 14 Place de Clichy, Paris 18, Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Belga Films
      • C.A.P.A.C.
      • Les Films Ariane
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    • 1 hour 48 minutes
      • Mono

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