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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.
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...
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- Geoffrey Rush
Dec 15, 2000 · A historical drama that depicts the last years of the notorious French writer in an asylum, where he defies his censors and tormentors with his erotic fantasies. Ebert praises Geoffrey Rush's performance and the film's tone, but questions its relevance to modern times.
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.
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- Philip Kaufman
- R
- 22
A historical drama about the imprisoned Marquis de Sade, who writes erotic stories with the help of his laundress and the Abbé du Coulmier. The film explores his conflicts with the prudish Doctor Royer-Collard, Napoleon, and his own demons.
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.
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