Storyline
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
Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Geoffrey Rush, Stephen Moyer, Stephen Marcus, Billie Whitelaw, Ron Cook, Elizabeth Berrington, Terry O'Neill, Amelia Warner, Michael Jenn, Patrick Malahide, Rebecca Palmer, Tony Pritchard, Howard Lew Lewis, Tom Ward, Harry Jones, Jane Menelaus, Bridget McConnell, Danny Babington, George Antoni, Pauline McLynn, Edward Tudor-Pole, Toby Sawyer, Daniel Ainsleigh, Alex Avery, Diana Morrison, Carol MacReady, Richard Mulholland, Julian Tait, Deborah Vale, Tessa Vale, Andrew Dunford, Lisa Hammond, Mathew Fraser, Jamie Beddard
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Reviews
90
Rolling Stone
A savage comedy of sexual extremes; the barbed laughs draw blood.
90
Profane, sacrilegious, pornographic, sadistic and Sade-istic, titillating and the most honorable movie of the year.
80
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.
