BiographyDrama

Quills

2001
★ 7.2 / 10
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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Reviews
★★★★★
As someone who doesn't know too much about the Marquis De Sade, I guess that I'll have to rely on "Quills". Played by Geoffrey Rush, De Sade comes across as sort of a misunderstood man with a perverted mind. Of course, if he was a "pervert", then one might int...
★★★★★
Quills is the modernized story of the Marquis de Sade, whose steamy writings whipped France into a sexual fury in the late 18th Century. And by modernized I mean that it has been told through the experiences of a lot of French people who speak English and with...
★★★★★
I originally went to see this one in a movie theater on a whim - I was feeling spontaneous, so I bought a ticket for a movie I knew nothing about, and went in free of preconceptions or expectations. The cleverness of the very first scenes brought a smile to m...
★★★★★
Terrific photography, a great cast (only Phoenix is his usual talentless self), and bundles of great irony to be found in the story. The Church, religion, hypocrisy, and self-righteous morals get a well-deserved drubbing. As twisted and perverted as De Sade ma...
★★★★★
This was a good movie, but I thought it had somewhat of an unsatisfsying ending (well, to me anyway). Sad too. It moves nicely, though and you don't want to be interrupted. It can get rather graphic at times, but that's mainly because of the subject material,...
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