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 · A film based on the play by Doug Wright, starring Geoffrey Rush as the 18th century French writer and sexual revolutionary, imprisoned in a Napoleonic era insane asylum. The film explores his relationship with a young laundress, a priest, and a doctor, and the impact of his erotic stories on the public.
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- Biography, Drama
- Philip Kaufman
- 2000-12-15
Quills is a 2000 film that fictionalizes the last years of the writer and sexual deviant Marquis de Sade in an insane asylum. It explores his relationship with a laundress, a doctor, and his works, and features Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix.
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- Geoffrey Rush
Dec 15, 2000 · A film about the Marquis de Sade, the notorious French writer of erotic and violent works, who is locked up in an asylum and forced to write by a sympathetic priest and a sadistic doctor. Ebert praises the film's tone, humor and depiction of de Sade's madness and indomitable spirit, but criticizes its comparison with modern times.
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.
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. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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Released September 2nd, 2000, 'Quills' stars Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine The R movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 4 min, and received a user score of 71 (out of 100 ...
