This Sweet Sickness

– French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsm..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.90 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 47 Minutes
Release Year:
1977
Original Name:
Dites-lui que je l'aime
This Sweet Sickness (1977) - Also known as Dites-lui que je l'aime

French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate here!) In Miller's version, the "hero," David, is a pathetic creature, motivated by humiliation and sexual inadequacy; thus the emphasis is not on his heinous crimes but on his warped personality. The director's noirish decision to stage much of the action in the dark, or the rain, or both, is a function of David's deep depression. As in his other films, Miller uses water as an omen of evil; you've seldom seen a more foreboding swimming pool than the one in This Sweet Sickness. The film was originally released as Dites-lui que je l'aime.

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Release Date:

28 Sep 1977

Language:

French

Director:

Claude Miller

Writer:

Claude Miller (adaptation), Luc Béraud (adaptation), Patricia Highsmith (novel)

Main Actors:

Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Claude Piéplu, Jacques Denis

Plot:

David is an accountant. He leaves town every Friday, pretending he is going to take care of his parents at their old people's home. But actually his parents are dead, and he spends the week-ends converting a chalet. He intends to live there with Lise, a woman he knows and loves since childhood. But Lise has just married another and has a baby. David's mad love does not see those facts as an obstacle...

Awards:

6 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.9/10