
Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane 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 thr... (Full plot summary below)
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Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane 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, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.
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| Film Comment MagazineElliott Stein[Blier's] entertaining movie starts uneasily, builds carefully, and ends beautifully. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBertrand Blier's audacious sex comedy won the Best Foreign Language Oscar of 1978. |
| F5 (Wichita, KS)Jake EukerGoing Places, which preceded this film by a year, is the Blier film to beat, but Handkerchiefs is one unruly, rioutously funny entry just the same. (The Academy, is must be noted, preferred this one, and the film took home the Best Foreign |
| User ReviewDavid HDefinitive one of My Favourite Films!!! Such a Funny Movie!!! Gérard Depardieu & Patrick Dewaere are such a Hillarious Duo!!! Like the Grotueske French Answer to Laurel & Hardy!!! And Carole Laure is so Sexy!!! |
| User ReviewPrivate UThe same dream team as in "Les Valseuses" : great !! |
| User ReviewMichael DOne of the most ridiculusly funny and hilarious comedy of ages !! Storyline is very very 'frenh'(!), trust me when I say this! Wonderful to watch.. simply great and abstruct movie. Acting and dialogues were so great.. can't but just laughing out loudly vibrating the whole room!! |
| User ReviewDeanna BInteresting. Not necessarily funny as it should be. The acting is superb. Nice story. |
| User ReviewChris DThis film is absolutely Unpredictable & funny. |
| User ReviewTit Mdu tres bon blier tout simplement le tandem dewaere depardieu toujours efficace |
| User ReviewSilke BRaoul decides, that his wife Solange needs another man to satisfy her and to get her out of her lethargy. He chats up Stephane in a restaurant and Stephane agrees to join the relationship. But instead of meeting Solange's needs, he becomes Raoul's friend. They both develop a great male bonding, Solange stays as unhappy as she was before. The men really try to cheer her up and work very hard on that. They even have a fuck-schedule, but can't get her satisfied. She stays as depressed as she was before. Solange finally begins to bloom, when a fourth person enters the relationship. The 13-year-old Christian. What starts as a mother/son relationship, soon becomes a sexual one. And Solange finally finds the fulfillment she was seeking for. A wonderful movie. Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere always make a movie worthwhile for me. And Bertrand Blier understands it perfectly to develop the characters reasonably. Situational humour, little twists and turns and a soothing atmosphere make me want to change my life. Live it more spontaneous and to the fullest. |