Geoffrey Rush
The Marquis de Sade
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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
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.
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- 21
Kaufman’s film, based on a play by Doug Wright, mostly takes place after the Marquis (Geoffrey Rush) has once again gone too far, after the excesses of his writing and his life have exhausted the license and privilege granted to aristocracy. In 1801, at 61, after 27 years spent in various prisons, he is sealed up in the insane asylum at Charenton.
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.
Quills is a film about the imprisoned French writer Marquis de Sade, who smuggles his erotic stories out of an asylum through a laundress. The film depicts his conflicts with a prudish doctor, a young bride, and a publisher, as well as his tragic fate and legacy.
