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Post #1391333

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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6-Dec-2020, 12:29 PM

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs - 1978 - 6/10
AKA - Préparez vos Mouchoirs

This “popular in its time” arthouse comedy has dated uncomfortably.
Husband feels is wife is cold, disinterested in life. She also suffers fits and swoons.
Men around him advise she needs to get pregnant. “We’ve tried! For years!”
Soon, the husband approaches a man in the restaurant, and asks if he would like to enjoy his wife.
She has no say in this, nor when a male neighbor gets involved.
Eventually she does find one who inspires her, though this is implausible beyond belief and sexist, to boot.
By design, this is meant to be disturbing, in a comic way, yet social attitudes have altered so much, that I daresay modern audiences will be unable to view this dispassionately, or through the lens of history.
Acting is broad based, appropriate but not relatable.