page_title: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
section_title: Critical reception
hierarchical_section_title: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs / Reception / Critical reception
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Carole Laure et Jean-Marc Barr au festival de Cannes.
context_page_description: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is a 1978 French romantic comedy film 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.
context_section_description: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs received generally positive reviews in the United States, with some concerns about sexism. David Denby, writing for New York magazine, praised Get Out Your Handkerchiefs as "courageous and enjoyable" and made in the spirit of the French New Wave. Richard Fuller, writing for Cincinnati, gave it three and a half stars and said it was "a joy to spend time with," though he objected to Mozart's music being overly loud. Variety wrote that "a rather bizarre mixture of gritty comedy, satire and delving into female status makes this a literary film. There is a lot of talk, sometimes good, but often edgy and too often pointless in lieu of a more robust visual dynamism and life."  People wrote the humour could be "downright incomprehensible" and "so airy it floats right off the screen."
  Time Out called it "an erratic, often hilarious movie." In his 2002 Movie & Video Guide, Leonard Maltin gives the film three and a half stars and calls it "disarming" and "highly unconventional." Arion Berger writes that "to experience Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is to watch a master at the peak of his powers." According to Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, French Canadian actress Carole Laure was "permanently eroticized" by Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and her music career, as having "reinvented the screen goddess." An Epinions critic wrote "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is good for some laughs while flaunting somewhat outrageous disregard for standard sexual mores." The Rotten Tomatoes website counts 12 favourable reviews out of 14.
caption: Critics discussed how the film sexually objectified or eroticized French Canadian actress Carole Laure.
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