Quills (2000)


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.

Quills (2000)

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Released Year: 2000
Runtime: 124 minutes
Genre: Biography, Drama
Directors: Philip Kaufman

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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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Reviews


90
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
A savage comedy of sexual extremes; the barbed laughs draw blood.
90
Washington Post - Stephen Hunter
Profane, sacrilegious, pornographic, sadistic and Sade-istic, titillating and the most honorable movie of the year.
80
The New York Times - A.O. Scott
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 - J. Hoberman
Kaufman's earnestly overblown celebration of the Marquis de Sade.
80
Film.com - Peter Brunette
The dialogue is sparkingly witty, and Phoenix and Winslet are excellent in what are, after all, meant to be fairly one-dimensional roles.

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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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