Geoffrey Rush
The Marquis de Sade
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Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award -winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. [4] Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis's incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton.
- Quills, by Doug Wright
- Doug Wright
Dec 15, 2000 · Quills: Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine. In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
- (56K)
- Biography, Drama
- Philip Kaufman
- 2000-12-15
D A N I Î L Perturbing, hilarious, seductive. Great acting! It's simply an excellent film. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/02/23 Full Review J K Underrated. We need a blu ray ...
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- Geoffrey Rush
Quills. Some are born evil, others choose evil, and some have evil thrust upon them. We are most inclined to forgive the members of the first category. The Marquis de Sade, for example, was hard-wired from birth as one of the most villainous of God's creatures. Although it is impossible to approve of him, it is possible to concede that he did ...
He manages to befriend the young Abbé de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbé finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments.
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Synopsis. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
- 123 min
Nov 22, 2000 · A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun. Philip Kaufman.
