The film “Prepare Your Handkerchiefs”, 1977, the genre of which is designated as drama, melodrama, comedy, however, after watching this film, I still thought about this classification, although elements are present, but there is a significant amount of satire in the plot, and also uses one rather risky technique that could be attributed to the category of pedophilia, if it were not presented from such a sharply satirical angle. So, a young couple lives, husband Raoul (J. Depardieu) madly loves his wife Solange (Carol Lore), who has lost absolutely any interest in life, even food, no longer smiles, she is constantly having inexplicable seizures, she is able only to knit endless, in the context of this film having symbolic meaning, sweaters. And he, as it seems to him, finds a solution to the problem by “giving” his wife to the first person he meets (P. Devar), then the second, etc., but no one is able to bring Solange to a normal state, but in the end such a subject will still be found, but who he will be, will be for everyone a great surprise, for some almost a tragedy. Do you wonder what the author’s message was?
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