Pros: Strong acting by Rush, atmospheric setting and editing add to the tension. Cons: This one is rough trade. Not for children and most adults.
After brooding on my to-be-watched shelf for a while, I finally got the nerve to pop this into the dvd player for today. I had heard a lot about this one, all the way from "It's Art!" to "It's Porn!" And as I urge most people, try and find out for...
Pros: excellent performance from the cast, particularly Geoffrey Rush, and fantastic writing from Doug Wright make this a film guaranteed to generate Oscar buzz Cons: the historical inaccuracies will undoubtedly create more confusion about Sade's life
Quills: Fox Searchlight Pictures Rating: USA: R
The mere mention of the name Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade can inspire any number of reactions. Until only recently, history had been quite unkind to Sade’s memory—with...
Pros: excellent acting, began well, quite humorous Cons: every character is unlikable, muddied plot and message, goes way overboard especially in the last half
In a nutshell, Quills is a fictionalized tale of the Marquis de Sade's (Geoffrey Rush) institutionalization in an insane asylum.
Perpetrator of crimes of perversity, de Sade belongs in a prison but his wife manages to wrangle him a spot in a...
Pros: Rush, Winslet and Phoenix are unforgettably good Cons: The script, smart at first, turns unforgivably cheesy
Is free speech the exclusive domain of pornographers?
After seeing The People vs. Larry Flynt and now Quills, I’m starting to wonder if Hollywood doesn’t have a narrow fetish for dirty words and even dirtier morals. Both movies...
I loved this movie. On my list of Top Ten movies of 2000 that I posted to this site, Quills came in at a very respectable number 5 (tied with The Yards). But I wanted to clarify what I wrote in that review a bit and flesh out it out into...
Pros: A little devilish, highly interesting, fabulous acting. Cons: Oh, not for everyone, of course.
I’ve just gotten done watching Quills about 15 minutes ago or so. It is 3:48am, stormy out, and I’m not tired in the least. Besides, there’s an infernal cricket in here chirping away, I swear it. So does that mean it is indeed the ...
Pros: captivating acting, broodingly appropriate lighting Cons: blasphemy, necrophilia, violence as a means of pleasure
In a word: disturbing. Rated R…it amazes me that it was able to maintain that rating.
The reason that I saw this movie was that I was given a free pass. Although mildly curious about the performances, I tried to brace myself before hand for...
Pros: Balanced, Great Acting, Excellent set design Cons: Slow at times, overdone in some parts
It’s easy to condemn a man for expressing himself in manners discreetly outside what is considered correct in any given time period. It much more difficult, however, to attempt to understand while doing so, or at least make an effort to explore the...
Pros: Great Acting, Interesting Story Cons: Marquis de Sade Is Portrayed Too Heroically.
Before I begin my review, I would like to shuffle off some random quotes of the Marquis de Sade. He was quite fond of spewing out his peculiar philosophies:
Pros: a dark a humourous film Cons: for the broad minded only
Tackling a portrayal of the life of someone as controversial as the Marquis de Sade was always going to be a difficult task for writer Doug Wright, but that is what he set himself to do in 2000 `s Quills. The premise of the film is this, for various ...
The Marquis De Sade. A true master of writing. Sure, schools will teach you about Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson, but the true flesh and blood of writing lies in the Marquis. Without doubt one of, if not the, most interesting figures in history. ...
Pros: The performances of Rush, Winslet and Phoenix make it worth the price of admission. Cons: Michael (nova)Caine.
The end it wrapped up a bit too conveniently.
While the year in film 2000 may eventually be marked by the most famous castaway since Gilligan and the most watchable gladiator since Spartacus, director Philip Kaufman ("The Unbearable Lightness of Being" "The Right Stuff") saw fit to make certain the...
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