Geoffrey Rush
The Marquis de Sade
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This Marquis stands not so much for sexual license as for freedom of artistic expression, and after he is locked up in an asylum and forbidden to write, he perseveres anyway, using his clothing, his skin and the walls of his cell as surfaces, and his own blood and excrement in place of ink.
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor. The infamous writer, the Marquis de Sade of eighteenth century France, is imprisoned at Charenton Insane Asylum for unmentionable activities.
Nov 22, 2000 · Overview. 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.
Quills. Geoffrey Rush stars in this darkly provocative thriller about the imagined final days of the lascivious Marquis de Sade and his battles with those who seek to silence his writings. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days.
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.
Geoffrey Rush stars in this darkly provocative thriller about the imagined final days of the lascivious Marquis de Sade and his battles with those who seek to silence his writings. IMDb 7.2 2 h 4 min 2000. X-Ray R. Drama · Coarse · Confused · Emotional. Available to rent or buy. Rent movie. HD $4.29 $3.99. Buy. HD $11.29. More purchase. options.
Quills. DRAMA. Quills images the final days of history's most infamous sexual adventurer, the Marquis de Sade. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid (Winslet) smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest (Phoenix).
