This Sweet Sickness (film)

Dites-lui que je l'aime
Directed by	Claude Miller
Produced by	Maurice Bernart Hubert Niogret
Written by	Claude Miller Luc Béraud Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Starring	Gérard Depardieu Miou-Miou Claude Piéplu Dominique Laffin Christian Clavier Josiane Balasko
Music by	Alain Jomy
Cinematography	Pierre Lhomme
Edited by	Jean-Bernard Bonis
Distributed by	AMLF/Filmoblic/France 3 Cinema/Prospectacle
Release dates	28 September 1977 (1977-09-28)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$3.5 million^[1]

Dites-lui que je l'aime (English: Tell Her I Love Her) is a 1977 French film directed by Claude Miller and starring Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou. It is based on the 1961 novel This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith.

Plot

David Martinaud is an accountant who leaves town for the weekends on the pretense that he is going to the old age home to care for his aging parents, who are in fact dead. He is really fixing up a chalet, where he intends to move in with Lise, who he has loved since childhood. However, Lise is just married to another and has a child, but this does not stop the warped and depressed David from pursuing his dream, which is motivated by a deep-seeted feeling of sexual inadequacy.

Cast

Gérard Depardieu - David Martinaud
Miou-Miou - Juliette
Claude Piéplu - Chouin
Dominique Laffin - Lise
Christian Clavier - François
Josiane Balasko - Nadine
Jacques Denis - Gérard Dutilleux
Xavier Saint-Macary - Michel Barbet
Michel Pilorgé - Maurice
Véronique Silver - Madame Barbet
Jacqueline Jeanne - Jeanne
Michel Such - Raymond
Annick Le Moal - Camille
Nathan Miller - Child

Awards

The film received six César nominations, for best director, actor, actress, cinematography, production design and sound.

References

↑ "Dites-lui que je l'aime (1977)". JP Box Office. Retrieved 1977-09-28. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

This Sweet Sickness at the Internet Movie Database
Dites-lui que je l'aime at AllMovie

Films directed by Claude Miller

The Best Way to Walk (1976)
This Sweet Sickness (1977)
Garde à Vue (1981)
Deadly Circuit (1983)
An Impudent Girl (1985)
The Little Thief (1988)
The Accompanist (1992)
Le Sourire (1994)
Class Trip (1998)
Of Woman and Magic (2000)
Alias Betty (2001)
Little Lili (2003)
A Secret (2007)
Marching Band (2009)
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
See How They Dance (2010)
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)

Works by Patricia Highsmith

Books	Strangers on a Train (1950) The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) (1952) The Blunderer (1954) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) Deep Water (1957) A Game for the Living (1958) This Sweet Sickness (1960) The Cry of the Owl (1962) The Two Faces of January (1964) The Glass Cell (1964) A Suspension of Mercy (1965) Those Who Walk Away (1967) The Tremor of Forgery (1969) Ripley Under Ground (1970) A Dog's Ransom (1972) Ripley's Game (1974) Edith's Diary (1977) The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) People Who Knock on the Door (1983) Found in the Street (1987) Ripley Under Water (1991) Small g: a Summer Idyll (1995)

Short story collections	Little Tales of Misogyny (1974) The Black House (1981) Mermaids on the Golf Course (1985)

Adaptations	Strangers on a Train (1951) Purple Noon (1960) Enough Rope (1963) The American Friend (1977) This Sweet Sickness (1977) A Dog's Ransom (1978) The Glass Cell (1978) The Cry of the Owl (1987) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Ripley's Game (2002) Ripley Under Ground (2005) The Cry of the Owl (2009) The Two Faces of January (2014) Carol (2015) A Kind of Murder (2016)

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