Quills

5.00
    Quills
    2000

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Geoffrey RushMarquis de Sade
    • Kate WinsletMadeleine LeClerc
    • Joaquin PhoenixAbbe du Coulmier
    • Michael CaineDr. Royer-Collard
    • Billie WhitelawMadame LeClerc
    • Patrick MalahideDelbené
    • Amelia WarnerSimone
    • Jane MenelausRenee Pelagie
    • Stephen MoyerProuix
    • Tony PritchardValcour

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Rolling Stone

      A savage comedy of sexual extremes; the barbed laughs draw blood.
    • 90

      Washington Post

      Profane, sacrilegious, pornographic, sadistic and Sade-istic, titillating and the most honorable movie of the year.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      Occasionally becomes pretentious and shrill -- sometimes Mr. Wright isn't aware that his material is so good that he doesn't need to comment on his characters.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Kaufman's earnestly overblown celebration of the Marquis de Sade.
    • 80

      Film.com

      The dialogue is sparkingly witty, and Phoenix and Winslet are excellent in what are, after all, meant to be fairly one-dimensional roles.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Rush is amazing throughout this absorbing, provocative film.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      Rush is too sinfully good for the drama he's in.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      Quills bleaches the danger -- and fascination -- out of De Sade, turning him into a kind of mad saint of ''Masterpiece Theatre'' porn.

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