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CinéSalon | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)

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Online: Tuesday, October 12–Monday, October 18, 2021


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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Préparez vos mouchoirs


Dir. Bertrand Blier, 1977, France. 108 min. Color DCP

With Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere

In French with English subtitles


Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure star in this sweet and funny exploration of love and its shifting configurations. Doting spouse Raoul attempts to alleviate the depression of his wife Solange, and on a whim decides to open their marriage up to accommodate school teacher Stéphane. The bookish Stéphane fails to cheer Solange—who instead turns her attention to a brainy 13-year-old, Christian.


Bertrand Blier’s audacious sex comedy won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.


The purest expression of Blier’s comic métier, treating naughty ideas with the straightest of faces.” — Robert Abele, LA Times


Exuberant and highly inventive.” — Janet Maslin, The New York Times


Very funny, very wise & happily subversive.” — Newsweek

  • Year
    1977
  • Runtime
    108 minutes
  • Language
    French with English subtitles
  • Country
    France
  • Director
    Bertrand Blier
  • Cast
    Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere