Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
by Bertrand Blier
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Actor: Carole Laure, El?onore Hirt, G?rard Depardieu, Michel Serrault, Patrick DewaereDirector: Bertrand Blier
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
DVD Review: Apparently it was Funny back Then
Summary: 3 Stars
I took note of "Get Out Your Hankerchiefs" because it won the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film" in 1978. I did enjoy it but I had a reaction similar to the one I got from "Murmers of the Heart". "Murmers" pushed the envelope even farther than "Get Out Your Hankerchiefs" did but this comedy does eventually evolve into something that many will not see the humor in. The director coaxes us into what many, myself included, were reluctantly ready to go along with. However, when he carries it further, I was left disappointed. Too bad, becaue I liked the inanity of the situation that was initially presented. There is a lot of unique humor that is able to happen in this movie and there is a lot of talent involved in making it all happen. I have come to accept that many European movies have relaxed standards compared to those in American Cinema. Usually that means that I have to wait for the kids to go to bed to watch what would otherwise be a standard PG-13 film. However, there are still taboos in our society. A film like "Murmers of the Heart" might dare to examine them but for a film like "Get out your Hankerchiefs" to ignore and/or make light of them just didn't sit well with me. I like to fancy myself an "enlightened prude" but the latter portion of "Get Out Your Hankerchiefs" reminded me that I must be a prude first and enlightened second. I guess I cling to the idea that there are so many better ways to create a great movie without stooping to this level. In all fairness, I should give this movie a "4 Star" rating but I took one away for propriety's sake. DVD Review: I liked it, but one of the oddest movies I have ever seen
Summary: 4 Stars
To say that this movie is not for everybody would be putting it mildly. There are plenty of people who would label as perverse a movie which culminates in a 12-year-old prodigy seducing & impregnating a grown woman, and this would not be an unfair assessment.
And yet, one could say that the most perverse thing about this movie is that the humor works. Situations which should have left me appalled instead left me smiling & laughing, because when all is said & done, this is one well-crafted movie. One can argue whether the absurdity trumps the perversity, but noone can argue that this is an exceedingly well-made, well-acted production.
DVD Review: GREAT MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
It was awonderful experience to watch this movie, first by myself and secondly with a few friends. We all ended discussing the contents, the scenes, the plot and everything that made that movie so interesting. I didn't expect less from Gerard Depardieu acting..Very entertaining and super..We all enjoyed it and cannot wait to watch another one in the same category..Still we want Gerad depardieu and his serious crew...Very good, very pleasant movie...DVD Review: Funny but huh?
Summary: 4 Stars
Gerard Depardieu is married to an unresponsive woman; thinking a lover might help cheer her up, he gets her one. When this doesn't work both men come to the conclusion that having a baby would do the trick. But this too fails. At end only a 14-year-old boy brings her out of the doldrums--and gets her pregnant. Highly improbable, but very funny. Won an Academy Award.DVD Review: I am very confussed
Summary: 4 Stars
Try as I might I will never understand french humor. Yes this movie was funny and yes the acting is excellent don't get me wrong but come on the whole 12 year old kid suducing a grown women thing??? I don't understand maybe I just don't think very deeply.
Description of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Thoroughly safe and mild compared to Going Places--the anarchic, something-to-offend-everyone earlier collaboration of G?rard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and French director Bertrand Blier--the 1977 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is an outwardly civilized satire with a heart so dark it's a wonder you can see the film's images. Depardieu plays the bellicose but well-meaning husband of a beautiful and depressed woman (Carole Laure) who wants to be pregnant but isn't. Hubby's solution to her woes is to talk another man (Dewaere), a complete stranger, into becoming her lover. When that fails to lift her spirits and fill her womb, the two men--both of them now slavishly devoted to the cult of her misery--bring in a boy (Riton) with whom Laure's character seems to be in perfect emotional synch. As with many of Blier's films, Handkerchiefs is an intellectually brutal but slaphappy variation on traditional comedies of manners. What makes this film a bit different was its obvious jibe at frothier French sex farces of the day (Yves Robert's Pardon Mon Affaire, for example, was released the same year) as well as then-contemporary adult comedy-dramas from the U.S. about the vicissitudes of relationships (Blume in Love, Kramer vs. Kramer). Seen in that context, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs looks like a wolf in sheep's clothing, though it isn't necessary to bring any context to Blier's acid wit. --Tom KeoghComedy DVDs
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