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details
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: Dec 25, 2000
Running Time: 125 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
synopsis
Story of the Marquis de Sade's long imprisonment at the Chartenton Asylum for the Insane. Escaping execution during the French Revolution, Sade is given preferential treatment at Chartenton and allowed to write. But after his book "Justine" is smuggled out of the asylum and published in Paris, torturer Royer-Collard is sent to discipline the unruly writer.
cast + crew
Director
2nd unit director
Marquis de Sade
Madeleine
Abbe Coulmier
Doctor Royer-Collard
Madame LeClerc
Delbene
Simone
Renee Pelagie
Prouix
Valcour
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Producer
Producer
Co-Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
December 10, 2000
One of the hallmarks of a quality director is that his films fascinate even when they fumble. Take Philip Kaufman. Whether he soars (The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), slums (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wanderers) or stumbles under lofty ambitions (Henry and June, Rising Sun), Kaufman shows a keen intelligence. Quills, deftly adapted by Doug Wright from his fuck-the-facts play about the Marquis de Sade, is a Kaufman high-wire act. Literate, erotic and spoiling to be…
Comte Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (Geoffrey Rush), the legendary French libertine and writer of dirty stories who lent his name to the term "sadism," goofs away the last decadent years of his life in an insane asylum. But the black-market publication of his latest porno masterpiece upsets the unorthodox arrangements he has with a mischievous chambermaid (Kate Winslet) and the open-minded priest who administers the facility (Joaquin Phoenix). Soon a harsh new supervisor (Michael Caine)…
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