Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Gérard Depardieu | ... | Raoul | |
Patrick Dewaere | ... | Stéphane | |
Carole Laure | ... | Solange | |
Michel Serrault | ... | Le voisin / Neighbor | |
Eléonore Hirt | ... | Madame Beloeil | |
Jean Rougerie | ... | Mr. Beloeil | |
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Sylvie Joly | ... | La passante / Passerbeil |
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Riton Liebman | ... | Christian Beloeil (as Riton) |
Liliane Rovère | ... | Bartender | |
Michel Beaune | ... | Le médecin dans la rue | |
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Roger Riffard | ... | Le médecin du port |
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 |
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>
"Get Our Your Handkerchiefs" is a funny little film about the need for sexual gratification and all the insecurities and absurdities it entails. The humor is unapologetically raunchy, and yet the story retains all the sophistication of something by Lubitsch. But it's also quite touching; the dismal woman, it turns out, only wanted someone she could identify with, someone who felt the same need for intellectual companionship that was masked by her sexual dissatisfaction. The solution is provided by a 13-year-old wunderkind who, unlike the husband or his friend, knows how to relate to the woman, and their relationship is far more real and convincing that any other in the story. Bertrand Blier constructed a film that questions and ultimately debunks nearly every `rule' on relationships, and provides more than a few belly laughs along the way. In a nutshell, "Get Our Your Handkerchiefs" is one of the few sex comedies out there that actually has something to say about sex.