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2000 Certificate 18
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Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip Kaufman that details the fall of the .. Read more

Starring Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Billie Whitelaw, Geoffrey Rush
Director Philip Kaufman
Genres Drama

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Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip Kaufman that details the fall of the French Revolution and the subsequent imprisonment of the fallen aristocrat, a notorious free thinker who lived to write with an outstanding creative spirit and provocative sexual appetite. In the film, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) befriends the liberal director of the asylum, Abbe Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix), and both share affections with the asylum laundress, Madeleine (Kate Winslet). Madeleine is a nubile but virginal young woman profoundly attracted to the mental prowess of the clever and wickedly defiant inmate who willingly smuggles his banished texts out of the asylum. But, when Napoleon reads JUSTINE, one of Sade's anonymous texts, he sends in Dr. Royer-Collard (Michael Caine), a cruel and moralistic man, to "cure" the Marquis of his supposed madness. However, the battle between the moralistic doctor and Sade only provokes the prisoner's rebellious spirit, resulting in a horrifying tragedy. QUILLS is a deliriously beautiful film that captures the free spirit of the imagination and the powers of undaunted artistic expression. Geoffrey Rush is a marvel as the profane and ingenious writer, strutting and flourishing about his erotically charged cell with awe-inspiring passion and greatness.

Starring Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Billie Whitelaw, Geoffrey Rush, Patrick Malahide, Amelia Warner, Stephen Moyer, Kate Winslet
Director Philip Kaufman
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 59 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released Production year: 2000

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DVD: 29 Oct 2001

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    • "...Geoffrey Rush [plays] Sade as a gleeful voluptuary unfettered by either morality [or] sentimentality....Mr. Kaufman revels in the chaos....Ms. Winslet's shrewdness as an actress has never been better displayed than it is here..."

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      Quills 2000

      I enjoyed this film. Interesting, well acted with good sets, based on fact and done realisticly. A little gruesome near the end but again being realistic to the... read more »

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      very good

      wife and self both thought it was excellent, great entertainment, good acting, if one likes period dramas then they dont come much better.

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      Very disappointing

      What a load of utter drivel. With a cast like that I expected great things..........i was very disappointed. I watched it to the end in case it got better - it ... read more »

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