Dites-lui que je l'aime | |
Director: | Claude Miller |
Producer: | Maurice Bernart Hubert Niogret |
Starring: | Gérard Depardieu Miou-Miou |
Music: | Alain Jomy |
Cinematography: | Pierre Lhomme |
Editing: | Jean-Bernard Bonis |
Distributor: | AMLF/Filmoblic/France 3 Cinema/Prospectacle |
Runtime: | 107 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Gross: | $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.
David Martinaud is an accountant who leaves town for the weekends on the pretense that he is going to his native home to care for his parents, who are in fact dead. He is really fixing up a chalet, where he intends to move in with Lise, a woman he has loved since childhood - even though Lise is married to another man and has a child. Nevertheless, David begins stalking her, intent on making her love him by any means necessary.
The film received six César nominations, for best director, actor, actress, cinematography, production design and sound.