Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

"Get Out Your Handkerchiefs" may not shock the way it once did, but it remains the purest expression of Blier's comic métier, treating naughty ideas with the straightest of faces.

[Blier's] entertaining movie starts uneasily, builds carefully, and ends beautifully.

While it is without a doubt fresh, original, and quite funny, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs does not succeed as the rich and meaningful depiction of life it claims to be.

will leave it to you to enjoy this absurdist and silly, goofy and fun little comedy as it unfolds. The extras on the blu-ray are scant, at best.

Blier's writing is sharp, his use of space mined for its comedic potential, his casting meticulous, especially in his return pairing of Depardieu and Dewaere whose bromance here is the film's highlight.

Often problematic (particularly during the second half) but also marked by scintillating dialogue and splendid performances.

Beware; no matter how much Get Out Your Handkerchiefs mocks the patriarchy, it's far from woke. Maybe that's the point?

Blier's sense of humor is curious if not downright incomprehensible... The comedy is so airy it floats right off the screen.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs is a farce played absolutely deadpan, with such an exaggerated solemnity that it baffled the kinds of critics who like to be properly alerted when it's time to laugh.

Bertrand Blier's audacious sex comedy won the Best Foreign Language Oscar of 1978.