Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1978 film by Bertrand Blier / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (French: Préparez vos mouchoirs) is a 1978 French romantic comedy film[2] directed by Bertrand Blier and starring Carole Laure, Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Riton Liebman. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.
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Directed by | Bertrand Blier |
Written by | Bertrand Blier |
Produced by | Paul Claudon Georges Dancigers Alexandre Mnouchkine |
Starring | Gérard Depardieu Patrick Dewaere Carole Laure |
Cinematography | Jean Penzer |
Edited by | Claudine Merlin |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Distributed by | Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $2,086,000[1] |
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The film tells the story of a ménage à trois in which two men share a woman to cure her of an unexplained depression, with many symptoms. Eventually, she begins an affair with an underage boy. The film employs heavy references to historical musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, combined with the music of the film's composer Georges Delerue, who won the César Award for Best Original Music. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs was a critical success.