Available today on Netflix, Guillaume Canet’s Little Handkerchiefs conquered the public when it was released in 2010. The opportunity to (re) see it on the platform.
What is it about ?
Following a shocking event, a group of friends decide, despite everything, to go on vacation by the sea like every year. Their friendship, their certainties, their guilt, their loves will be shaken. They will finally have to lift the “little handkerchiefs” they have placed on their secrets and their lies.
Les petits mouchoirs, a film written and directed by Guillaume Canet with François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel…
A friends movie
For his third feature film, Guillaume Canet brings together in front of his camera Marion Cotillard and his band of friends. We thus find François Cluzet, Valérie Bonneton, Gilles Lellouche, Pascale Arbillot, Laurent Laffite or even his friend oyster farmer Joël Dupuch. We can guess the director’s ambition to make a film like Claude Sautet and his classic Vincent, François, Paul… and the others.
Les petits mouchoirs follows the life of a group of close friends residing in Paris. Their daily life is turned upside down when one of them, Ludovic (Jean Dujardin), is involved in a tragic accident leaving a nightclub.
As the gang prepares to take their summer vacation together, always courtesy of the group’s wealthiest member, Max (François Cluzet), a successful hotelier and restaurateur, they aren’t sure it’s the right time. to leave while their friend is in intensive care.
EuropaCorp Distribution Marion Cotillard and Pascale Arbillot
However, hospital visits are limited and Max’s holiday home is only an hour’s drive away, so the group decides to take two weeks instead of a month, so they can return when Ludovic is a little less in bad shape to see them.
But with tragedy over their heads, some truths the friends have shunned can no longer be concealed by various little lies. As tensions mount, they threaten to ruin not only the holiday atmosphere, but also their friendship.
Little Handkerchiefs was one of the biggest box office hits of 2010, attracting nearly 5.5 million moviegoers to theaters. It is the first French film in the annual ranking. Outside of France, the film attracted 1.1 million viewers internationally.