This Sweet Sickness (film)

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

1. ↑ "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