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Bookmark this pagePréparez Vos Mouchoirs (1977)
Director: Bertrand Blier
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From Time Out Film Guide
An inspired attack on 'real life' melodramas of the soppy kind capped by Kramer vs Kramer. Depardieu, all solicitude and whispers, is the ham-fisted husband, worried by his wife's elusive 'dizzy spells'; Dewaere is the first of several men he invites into their marriage to 'cheer her up'; Riton is the schoolboy-lover she finally adopts to complete a bizarre ménage-à-quatre. Somewhere in all this chaos, the movie firmly puts the boot into mainstream French comedy, substituting absurd and amiable bad taste for the intellectual rigor mortis of which Parisians are so proud. An erratic, often hilarious movie.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Bertrand Blier
Producer: Georges Dancigers, Alexandre Mnouchkine
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Riton, Michel Serrault, Sylvie Joly, Eléonore Hirt full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 109 mins
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