• Quills
  • Details: 2000, USA, Cert 18, 106 mins, Drama / Period, Dir: Philip Kaufman

    With: Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine

    Summary: 1807, Paris. The Marquis de Sade (Rush) is in an asylum run by a sympathetic curate (Phoenix). With the help of the chambermaid (Winslet) the Marquis still manages to write and publish his sexually explicit novels, so France's most notoriously brutal physician (Caine) is sent to 'cure' him.

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  • Philip French

    Philip French: There's a splendid succession of scenes in which de Sade, deprived of quills and paper, manages to keep on writing

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Peter Bradshaw: Michael Caine is excellent as the humourless - and sadistic - doctor who torments Sade and Geoffrey Rush gives a showstopping turn as the old devil himself.

  • Quills
    London film festival
    ***

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