Quills (2000)

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7.2	IMDB rating

Directed by

Philip Kaufman

Starring (View all)

Geoffrey Rush

The Marquis de Sade

Kate Winslet

Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc

The Abbe du Coulmier

Dr. Royer-Collard

Madame LeClerc

Delbené

Simone

Renee Pelagie

Written by

Doug Wright

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Geoffrey Rush naked...

6 years ago at May 11 13:54

Munky

3 votes

Geoffrey Rush is the Marquis de Sade - writer of many pornographic tales and stuck in a mental institution. Kate Winslet is the laundry maid who is fascinated by him and Joaquin Phoenix is the Abbe who is infatuated by her.

Geoffrey Rush is brilliant in this movie as the Marquis de Sade. He should have won the oscar for this role in 2001 instead of Russell Crowe.
This is de... read more

A good movie

5 months, 3 weeks ago at Nov 27 3:30

johanlefourbe

3 votes

I wanted to check this movie for many years and I’m rather surprised that it took me so long to get my hands on it. Anyway, fortunately, I wasn’t disappointed. Indeed, there was a great cast (Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) and they all delivered some solid performances. Above all, I was once again really impressed by Geoffrey Rush who was just terrific, as usual.... read more

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Description: Quills is a fictional account of the last days of the Marquis de Sade, the infamous, eighteenth-century writer. Here is the archetypal clash between the establishment forces of morality and the creative spirit of a subversive artist who enjoys spitting in the face of repressive authorities. The film presents some surprising twists and ... (more)

Release date : 15 December 2000
UPC: 024543016625

Drama (11), 2000 (7), Biography (7), Historical (7), Romance (7), Marquis De Sade (6), Censorship (6), Asylum (6), Sadism (6), Rape (6), Nudity (6), France (6), Usa (6), Priest (5), 2000s (5), Hypocrisy (5), Torture (5), Writing (5), Necrophilia (5), Sex (5)

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johanlefourbe posted a review 5 months, 3 weeks ago

A good movie

“I wanted to check this movie for many years and I’m rather surprised that it took me so long to get my hands on it. Anyway, fortunately, I wasn’t disappointed. Indeed, there was a great cast (Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) and they all delivered some solid performances. Above all, I was once again really impressed by Geoffrey Rush who was just terrific, as usual. He is definitely a very good actor and he is really underrated in my opinion. Furthermore, I thought it was a great approach to set the action in an asylum and it was quite impressive that, in spite of this dreary settings, there were still some hilarious scenes. Still, even though I really enjoyed it, it never managed to become truly remarkable though. Indeed, in my opinion, there were too many ” read more