Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) from Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy; Greg Wroblewski) and Tuna

That brief comparison makes the two films sound more similar than they are. This one is kind of the kindler, gentler version. In Going Places, the boys are a couple of hooligans, and their failure to please their live-in lover is only a small part of the story, In Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, they are a couple of guys with standard middle-class values, and the sexual breakthrough is the entire story. Depardieu plays a young husband who can't make his wife smile any more. In fact, his wife (Carole Laure) doesn't seem to be interested in life at all. In order to bring some spring back to her step, Depardieu recruits her a new lover (Dewaere), a lonely, bookish fellow whose life consists of his library and Mozart. Laure seems to like him well enough, but there is no emotional connection between them, just as there was none between Laure and Depardieu. Their mutual failure to inspire Laure creates a bond between the boys, and they gradually rope in an-ever expanding circle of people into the Laure project, all the while treating her as if she is not there, and talking about her as if she were a pet cat.

When they get out to the country, Laure finally takes an interest in something - a 13 year old boy, with whom she forms both a maternal and a sexual bond. When the boy is carted off by his parents and shipped to a new boarding school, Depardieu and Dewaere help Laure kidnap the boy, for which they go to jail. When they get out, they peek in on Laure through an open window, see her contentedly pregnant. They shrug their shoulders and move on, obviously resigned to never understanding women, but happy that Laure is happy.

The film was considered kind of a trifling but amusing effort in France, and was not even nominated for a Cesar, except for the musical score. America's arthouse community, on the other hand, embraced it and named it the best foreign picture!