'Get Our Your Handkerchiefs' is a funny little film about the need for sexual gratification and all the insecurities and absurdities it entails. The humor is unapologetically raunchy, and yet the story retains all the sophistication of something by Lubitsch. But it's also quite touching; the dismal woman, it turns out, only wanted someone she could identify with, someone who felt the same need for intellectual companionship that was masked by her sexual dissatisfaction.

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The solution is provided by a 13-year-old wunderkind who, unlike the husband or his friend, knows how to relate to the woman, and their relationship is far more real and convincing that any other in the story. Bertrand Blier constructed a film that questions and ultimately debunks nearly every `rule' on relationships, and provides more than a few belly laughs along the way. In a nutshell, 'Get Our Your Handkerchiefs' is one of the few sex comedies out there that actually has something to say about sex. 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. This is not a film that will appeal to everyone. Those who do not like seeing excessive female toplessness will not enjoy a large part of this film.

And there are certainly some sexual situations that will be uncomfortable - and could never have been filmed in America. But this is a very original, very unusual romantic comedy. While the modern romantic comedy has a woman going through ups and downs before ending up with her dream guy, this is not that story. The central woman is pursued by multiple men with no real interest whatsoever. It is bizarre, and humorous in a twisted way. 'Get Out Your Handkerchiefs' is an excellent piece of storytelling and a refreshing film. It flows freely and is full of interesting and engaging twists, one of which is surprising but serves well in tying it all together.

Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere play two gentlemen at the mercy of an oddly ailing woman, Solange. Doctors are no help, and the two men obviously mean little to her, but they keep at it and decide that what she needs is a child, which she cannot give birth to.

Things happen and as the story unfolds, it brings the viewer in closer and examines happiness from an offbeat angle. If nothing else, 'Get Out Your Handkerchiefs' is fun and engaging and should not be missed. Describing the plot of this film is rather pointless, since it reads in black and white rather absurdly, even for a comedy. But it works! The acting is great, (including a handsome and youthful Depardieu before he turned into a sloppy behemoth), the jokes are funny and the direction and camerawork make you feel like you've been dropped into a Van Gogh.

What I like about French movies or at least what i used to like, was their ability to transport you into their wonderful culture for the duration of the film. Over the past 20 years however, French cinema for many dynamic cultural and economic reasons, has slowly allowed its identity to slip away. If you've never been to France or are just yearning to take a return trip for 90 minutes or so, this film will give you as good a taste of the French way and outlook on life, as a 2 week Frommers trip. This film is wonderful.

Blier brings classic elements of French farce films into cuttings that remind me of Melville. He does a wonderful job of developing Solange, Raoul, and Stephane as caricatures.giving the viewer great understanding of how these characters will react in future situation. The eratic behaviors are completely acceptable on the same terms that the wild cuts.from dinner table to summer camp, and opening in a restaurant with no frame of reference.forces one to become involved in the story. So many Hollywood films 'do the work for you' so to speak. This leaves the movie experience stale. I'm not going to get involved in a film unless the director invites me to do so.

Blier certainly does that. And the Mozart concerto helps. Gervase de Brumer.

This movie is quite similar to the American film 'Rushmore,' in that both films portray sensitive, intelligent young teen boys becoming infatuated with adult women twice their age. Major difference: Blier the guts that the director of 'Rushmore' did not have. 'Rushmore,' like most films about teen boys having crushes on older women, took the easy way out. The boy falls madly in love with his teacher, but the romance is never consummated. Instead, he encourages her, at the end of the film, to continue her affair with a much older married man.

So, the message is the older men have the right to take advantage of younger women, yet not vice versa? In Blier's film, the relationship of boy and his adult crush is consummated. Therefore, the film breaks the mold. 'Rushmore' merely follows a traditional (and just plain worn out) plot pattern.

Complex, very funny, sad, very French look at love and sexual dynamics, with terrific acting all around. Gerard Depardieu plays a man who truly loves his wife, but can't understand her or her depression. So he decides to get her a lover to cheer her up.

But it doesn't work, and now two men are bewitched and befuddled by the sad, repressed Solange. Ultimately only a love affair with a 13 year old boy – who in many ways is the most mature character in the film – gives her joy.

Transgressive, uncomfortable, and tweaking both sides of the war of the sexes equally; men are fools who can only look at women through a narrow prism, and women are complex and weird to the point of absurdity, this is a film that makes me laugh and cringe (in a good way) in equal measure. That's good cinema.!!! That's a real way to think about another reality. We don't need weapons knowledge but self-comprehension. We don't need anything else.

We don't need extreme mean examples of human nature. At least we don't need high tech killers & so many people being killed every minute on everyday films. We're just humans. And we should love being humans. We should try to make money with human storys and not only speculating with extreme violence and threatening extremes.

Making films is such a huge responsibility that we should really think about it. As a producer and as a spectator.

'How are we building the next generation reality.' If big budget means huge violence. I just ask you to think about it. I was 8 years old when I first saw this. Yes, my parents were asleep and we we're the first kids on my block to get cable. So yes, I tip toed downstairs in the middle of the night to watch this movie.

I don't know what the adults though of this film, but all I knew, was this woman got naked in front of a child. Microsoft office for windows 8 free. Not only that, but sex followed! For being the only eight year-old in the room, I wasn't about to change the channel to watch cartoons. I guess you can say this was a coming of age drama if not a sad black comedy about sex, relationship, and finding sex and a relationship in the most unlikely places. All in all, I remember the movie (at such a young age) because of the subject matter. The overall story of the movie?

Couldn't tell you. I wasn't listening to anything the actors were saying. I was just watching. What does a women want? I think the recent popularity of films like the Science of Sleep, I Heart Huckabees and Being John Malkovich deserves to rekindle interest in this important but largely forgotten director. Through the late 70's and 80's, Blier single handedly kept alive the French tradition of Absurdist Theater. While films like Being John Malkovich and I Heart Huckabees incorporate elements of surrealism, they remained tied to conventional narratives that require that ultimately everything ultimately make sense.

Kaufman and Russell are relying on throwing a few nonsensical elements into their conventional narratives. Blier (and to a lesser extent Gondry) stop making sense and embrace the absurdity of life.

In this amusing French comedy, a man finds a lover for his depressed and sexually frustrated wife in an attempt to make her happy but even the lover can't satisfy her. She eventually finds happiness with a precocious 13-year old - only the French can make light of such a pairing!

Depardieu as the generous and caring husband and Dewaere as the lover have good chemistry and provide most of the laughs. The two had previously teamed with Blier in 'Going Places.' Laure doesn't do much except sit around and knit (usually in the nude).

This Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film isn't totally satisfying but is entertaining enough. The soundtrack features Mozart and Schubert. I am still wondering how I managed to sit through the entire movie.

Story - bizarre. Acting - no comments please. A bizarre relationship between a 13 old kid and an imbecile married woman. All she does is knitting sitting topless. An equally imbecile husband who finds the third imbecile in the movie to make love to his wife. A bored housewife who falls in love after a car wreck; it was upside down but she was intact enough to have sex with the first stranger that passes. This is French slapstick for you folks.

I have no idea how come people give it a rating over 2-3. I rated it 1/10 because I couldn't rate it lesser. In my opinion it's -7 out of 10. I can't remember the name of those French pastries that are about the size and shape of an irregular softball. They look rich and filling but when you poke them with a fork - poof.

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They deflate into insubstantiality. And I can't remember. Je suis desolee. And the Mexicans have a similar dessert dripping with honey and I can't remember what they're called either! Anyway, this movie is like that dessert. It's fragile, delicate, drifting from one absurd situation to another without much holding it together.

It's amusing enough if you're in the mood for this sort of thing. Well, I'll give two examples of what I mean. Raoul (Depardieu) and his wife (Laure) are in a restaurant. He's very intense as he tells her that something is missing from her character, maybe she needs a lover or something, because to him she always seems bored.

All she does is clean up the house and knit distinctively ugly sweaters, one of which Raoul is wearing. Laure eats her sauerkraut, looking bored. Raoul has noticed another man, Stephane (Dewaere), giving Solange the eye, so he goes over and invites the stranger to take his wife home and make love to her. There follow some moments of confusion. A passerby is brought into the scene as a consultant.

But Stephane winds up at the table with Raoul and Solange and the proposal is made to her. She says nothing, just looks bored.

Stephane is insulted that she's not interested. He's not just another GUY, you know?

Raoul argues with him, and the two trade insults in this improbably situation, perfectly serious, like Hope and Crosby arguing about who's going to fight the gorilla in one of the Road pictures. The three of them eventually establish an uncomfortable menage a trois. Not uncomfortable because the two men are jealous of one another, but uncomfortable because Solange clearly doesn't give a damn which one she sleeps with - or whether she sleeps with any of them at all. Stephane is soon seen wearing an ugly sweater identical to Raoul's. When she doesn't perk up, the men try to get her pregnant, without success. Raoul asks desperately. 'Why does she do nothing but knit and wash laundry?

She never reads a book or listens to Mozart.' Stephane thinks for a moment and asks, 'Is it possible she's just dumb?'

Raoul is outraged. As if HE would ever marry a dumb woman! It goes on like this, while we smile and chuckle once in a while, then it gets derailed. Some thirteen-year-old genius kid is introduced into the film and Solange responds warmly to him, both as a child and a lover.

(He winds up wearing her sweater.) Solange becomes the maid in the wealthy household of this kid and is made pregnant by him. Raoul and Stephane peek at the windows of the huge house through a locked gate, exchange one or two more quizzical comments, then walk away into the night. It is in no way a sexploitation film, although there's a bit of nudity. Carole Laure is made up and wardrobed in the dumpiest fashion imaginable, her hair a helmet left over from some production of Henry V, gowned in floppy granny dresses, often wearing what looks like a GI-issue watch cap. It would have been easy - trust me - to turn her into a sexpot.

Check her out in the exercise class in 'Heartbreakers.' Gerard Depardieu is here big-boned but not beefy, and handsome in an easy-going way with his constantly unenlightened expression. Dewaere is suitably bookish.

The smooth-talking sad-looking genius of a kid who finally rings Laure's chimes should be beaten to a pulp. What does he have that the rest of us didn't have at thirteen? I mean, aside from an IQ of 158.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs 1978

Well, you might drift occasionally, and the second half is a little on the heavy side, like so many desserts, but you'll probably enjoy it in its uncloying sweetness and understated humor.

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In the opening sequence, before seemingly every door is thrown open in this farce, Blier shows a solid flair for the sparkle of screwball logic.