MOVIE · 2000
Quills
Drama124 min
Confined to an asylum in early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade keeps his forbidden writings in circulation even as officials move to silence him. Geoffrey Rush is the notorious author, locked in conflict with Joaquin Phoenix’s reform-minded Abbé de Coulmier, while laundress Madeleine (Kate Winslet) becomes a secret route between Sade’s pages and the outside world. When a severe doctor arrives to impose order, the halls of Charenton become a struggle over censorship, authority, and the consequences of turning private fantasies into public scandal.
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