Billie Whitelaw, Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix
Based on historical fact of the Napoleonic Era, the notorious Marquis de Sade continues to write about the pain of love and the love of pain while banished to a secluded Paris asylum. A young, idealis...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 8, 2001
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Flixster Reviews (2,156)
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June 20, 2008The Marquis de Sade was without a doubt one of God's most villainous creatures...
Geoffrey Rush is scandalously good giving such a luminous, gleeful and flamboyant performance...all the while portraying an otherwise depraved and reprehensible being...
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October 2, 2009Death Kiss...After one of the asylum's laundry girls, Madeleine (Kate Winslet) was attacked and killed by one of the inmates of the Charenton Asylum for the Insane, her body was discovered - and put on display with a very filmy cloth over it; the asylum's head priest Coulmier (Jo...( read more)
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September 29, 2009Geoffrey Rush's finest hour. While the movie shies away from depicting the desecration that was de Sade's era, you can't really expect another Caligula to ever slip past the horrible censors.
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September 27, 2009I loved this movie .one of the best i've ever seen ,I will watch it a million more times and I'm gonna love it .actually QUILLS is the best romence movie ever
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Critic Reviews
December 15, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
January 1, 2000
David Edelstein, Slate
The dramatic case is too settled, the narrative trajectory too smug, the view of the transgressive artist too naive. full review
January 1, 2000
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It's an unapologetic dazzler, which is why it's never overwhelmed by its themes. full review
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