Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1978 · Movie · 108 min · ★ 6.6 · 78% critics
A woman struggling with deep unhappiness becomes the focus of her husband’s increasingly unusual attempts to lift her spirits. What starts as an offbeat relationship drama grows more unsettling as the search for a cure leads into troubling emotional territory.
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Details
- Original title
- Préparez vos mouchoirs
- Years
- 1978
- Release date
- 1978-01-11
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (145 votes)
About
You might like this if you’re open to provocative, uncomfortable relationship dramas in the vein of Ménage or Our History; Not for you if troubling taboo material and morally unsettling choices are a hard stop.
Pros: unconventional premise; provocative relationship drama | Cons: disturbing subject matter; uncomfortable tone; ethically troubling turns
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- 1970s
- bisexuality
- classical music
- stricken
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1979
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 1979 · nominated
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1979 · nominated
Cast & crew
Gérard Depardieu
as Raoul
Patrick Dewaere
as Stéphane
Carole Laure
as Solange
Michel Serrault
as le voisin
Eléonore Hirt
as Mme Beloeil
Jean Rougerie
as M. Beloeil
Riton Liebman
as Christian Beloeil
Sylvie Joly
as la passante
Michel Beaune
as Le docteur Rue
Liliane Rovère
as La barmaid
Directed by Bertrand Blier