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Whether this film will please most audiences is a good question. It is more about the mind than the flesh, and de Sade's struggle is monomania to an excruciating extreme. Yet Kaufman (" The Right Stuff ," " The Unbearable Lightness of Being ") finds a tone that remains more entertaining than depressing, more absorbing than alarming.
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Wandering in the rain, the man looks like one of the walking...
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Two men haunt Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" (1983), the...
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75% Tomatometer 126 Reviews 83% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings A fictional work that reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in an...
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- Geoffrey Rush
Dec 15, 2000 · 93 Critic reviews. 70 Metascore. Nominated for 3 Oscars. 18 wins & 45 nominations total. Videos 1.
- (57K)
- Biography, Drama
- Philip Kaufman
- 2000-12-15
Jan 19, 2001 · But Quills is partly redeemed by the two heavyweights in the cast. Michael Caine is excellent as the humourless - and sadistic - doctor who torments Sade. And Geoffrey Rush gives a showstopping...
Quills Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. David Ansen Newsweek. TOP CRITIC. A literate, playfully provocative defense of free speech at its most abominable,...
The film holds a 75% "fresh" rating at the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's consensus states: "Though hard to watch, this film's disturbing exploration of freedom of expression is both seductive and thought-provoking."
10/10. Philip Kaufmann has produced yet another amazing piece of work. zetes 14 May 2001. Quills is one of the best films of 2000, in my reckoning, second best only to You Can Count on Me. It is one of the most brilliantly directed, acted, produced, and written films I've seen in a very long time.
