Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is a 1978 French romantic comedy film directed by Bertrand Blier

Bertrand Blier

Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....

. The film received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 at the 51st Academy Awards

51st Academy Awards

The 51st Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson....

. The film had a total of 1,321,087 admissions in France.

Plot

Solange (Laure) is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul (Depardieu) seeks to save her by enlisting Stéphane (Dewaere), a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stéphane 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 (Liebman) , the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.

Cast

• Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
  
   as Raoul
• Carole Laure
  Carole Laure
  Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada.-Career:Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband...
  
   as Solange
• Patrick Dewaere
  Patrick Dewaere
  Patrick Dewaere was a French film actor. He was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, son of French actress Mado Maurin. His five siblings, Jean-Pierre Maurin , Yves-Marie Maurin , Dominique Maurin , Jean-Francois Maurin and Marie-Veronique Maurin Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982)...
  
   as Stéphane
• Michel Serrault
  Michel Serrault
  Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :...
  
  as Le voisin
• Eléonore Hirt as Mme Belœil
• Jean Rougerie as M. Belœil
• Sylvie Joly as The passer-by
• Riton Liebman as Christian Belœil (under the name of Riton)
• Liliane Rovère as Marthe the barmaid (« Bernadette »)
• Michel Beaune as The doctor in the street
• Roger Riffard as The doctor of the port
• André Thorent as The teacher
• André Lacombe as The councillor
• David Gabison as Le quidam (under the name of Alain David Gabison)
• Gilberte Géniat as The usherette
• Jean Perin as A worker
• Bertrand de Hautefort as An officer