Get Out Your Handkerchiefs poster
Screenplay Bertrand Blier
Director Bertrand Blier

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Original Title: Préparez vos mouchoirs

Tagline: The Delicious Anarchy of Love and Devotion

Release Date: 1978-01-11

Duration: 108 minutes

Synopsis

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

Casting

  • Gérard Depardieu
    Raoul
  • Carole Laure
    Solange
  • Michel Serrault
    le voisin
  • Patrick Dewaere
    Stéphane
  • Liliane Rovère
    La barmaid
  • Michel Beaune
    Le docteur Rue
  • Gilberte Géniat
    L'ouvreuse du théâtre
  • Jean Rougerie
    M. Beloeil
  • Eléonore Hirt
    Mme Beloeil
  • André Thorent
    Le professeur