Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
French film poster
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
Release date	11 January 1978 (1978-01-11)
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.