| Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | |
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| Préparez vos mouchoirs | |
| 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] |
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.
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.
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 295. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
- ^ Berger, Arion (23 September 1993). "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 25 February 2013.