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Quills (2000)
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With bedroom eyes and the mischievous smirk of an insatiable roué, Geoffrey Rush is a perfect choice to play the Marquis de Sade in Quills, directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted by Doug Wright from his own stage play. Imprisoned in France's Charenton asylum at the turn of the 18th century, de Sade is a stately court jester in disheveled finery, and Rush imbues the role with the fierce urgency of a writer whose sexual fantasies are his sole remaining defense against repression and hypocrisy. Deprived of quill and ink, he writes with wine, then blood, then his own feces--a descent into madness or an impassioned refusal to be...
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Quills Movie Review by AJ  (7/29/2006) |
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A sharp and witty seriocomic look at the Marquis de Sade and how he fueled a generation of depravity and sexuality...or, in essence, tried to free society from its less than comely shackles. Of course, if we're to judge by this picture, the Marquis' sanity is certainly questionable, but director Philip Kaufman and...
(complete Quills review by AJ)
| Quills Movie Review by Jarrod (8/20/2007) |
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'Quills' tells the story of the Marquis de Sade, a French aristocrat whose perversity and obscene sexual writings get him thrown into an asylum, as he offends both the king and the church, an embarrassment to everyone in high society. The Marquis (Rush) is a man of sophisticated tastes, supremely well-educated, his stories...
(complete Quills review by Jarrod)
The highly sexualized story of the highly sexualized Marquis de Sade.
He wrote naughty stories that entertained the masses, even when he was arrested and scorned, he found a way to get his stories out. He cried out for pleasure to have a voice and gave his readers an escape from the world that was crashing down on...
(complete Quills review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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