Get Out Your Handkerchiefs [Blu-ray]

Overview

The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Pr?parez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed amalgam of the sentimental and sardonic. G?rard Depardieu plays an at-wit's-end husband, Raoul, who'll go to any lengths to sexually satisfy his wife, Solange (Carole Laure). Raoul decides that the best thing to cure Solange's boredom would be if she took a lover; thus, he chooses St?phane (Patrick Dewaere) for the "job." But St?phane isn't any more successful in arousing Solange than her husband had been. Eventually, it is a 13-year-old boy who quenches Solange's erotic yearnings. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as well as a French C?sar award for Best Score (by Georges Delerue).

Product Details

Release Date:	08/27/2019
UPC:	0741952853190
Original Release:	1978
Rating:	R
Source:	Cohen Media Group
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	20,142

Special Features

New Introduction by Richard Pena; Original Trailer; Re-release Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gérard Depardieu	Raoul
Patrick Dewaere	Stéphane
Carol Laure	Actor,Solange
Michel Serrault	Le voisin
Sylvie Joly	Passerby
Jean Rougerie	Mr. Beloeil
Liliane Rovère	Actor
Michel Beaune	Actor
Roger Riffard	Actor
André Thorent	Actor
André Lacombe	Actor
David Gabison	Actor
Gilberte Géniat	Actor
Jean Perin	Actor
Bertrand de Hautefort	Actor
Riton Liebman	Christian Beloeil
Eléonore Hirt	madame Beloeil,Mrs. Beloeil
Georges Delerue	Composer

Technical Credits

Bertrand Blier

Bertrand Blier	Director,Screenwriter
Paul Claudon	Producer
Georges Dancigers	Producer
Alexandre Mnouchkine	Producer
Paul Bertault	Sound Effects
Louis Gimel	Sound Effects
Jacques Lévy	Sound Effects
Jean-Pierre Ruh	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

A key plot point of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs -- the affair between the leading lady and a 13-year-old boy -- is sure to alienate many viewers, who will be made extremely uncomfortable by the moral questions it raises. Those able to get past this not-inconsiderable obstacle, however, will find Handkerchiefs very funny, engrossing, and thought-provoking. The underage sexual situation is more palatable when one accepts Handkerchiefs as a satire and as a symbolic exploration of Freudian conflicts among the male sex. (The fact that only a child can provide the adult woman with the total companionship she is seeking says a great deal about the basic emotional immaturity of the adult men in the film.) Handkerchiefs features a great deal of well-written, often raunchy, dialogue and a number of excellent sequences (such as the opening restaurant scene and the segment in which the boy is asked by his friends about his experiences with sex), and is quite flavorful throughout. Bertrand Blier's direction is lively, and the performances -- especially from a young Gérard Depardieu -- are excellent. Viewers willing to meet Get Out Your Handkerchiefs on its own terms will be rewarded by this wry yet sentimental comedy.