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. 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.
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- Biography, Drama
- Philip Kaufman
- 2000-12-15
A fictional work that reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in an insane asylum for the...
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- Geoffrey Rush
Dec 15, 2000 · 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.
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- 123 min
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. 1,079 IMDb 7.2 2 h 4 min 2000. X-Ray R.
