There are no bad words... only bad deeds.
Quills (2000) has blown my mind, and for those who have seen it pardon the innuendo. It is a stunning, terrific, and in my book, a very welcomed film.
Based upon the play by Doug Wright who also wrote the screenplay and directed by Philip Kaufman, it looks at one of humanity's deepest intimate legacies - the wanton desire to express oneself - and the laws that governs over humanity. Without any inhibitions, the film centers around the artistic yet licentuous writings of one 18th century french aristocrat, Marquis De Sade (wiki bio), and the few inhabitants of Charenton, an isane ayslum where the former eventually lived to his very last. Sent there to be shut and kept away from the public, Marquis, played beautifully and magnificently by Geoffrey Rush, lives a nonetheless liberated and comfortable life in the asylum where he continues to do the thing he was sent there for in the first place. Writing novels after novels of explicit sexual nature, the Abbe Coulmier, who oversees Charenton, tolerates this and even banters with the Marquis in the belief that it will help 'cure' the man from his impurity. Unbeknownst to Coulmier, Marquis' novels gets published to the general public and are massive successes (perhaps one of the first cults). A vice that swayed finely in between one that was tolerated or ignored. Eventually it became something that threatened the ideals of a nation.
Royer-Collard, played by Michael Caine, is an old physics doctor whose profession and speciality lies in the medieval art of torture in the name of 'curing' out the ineccessities or evils in a human being. Sent as an alternative decreed, he gets assigned on Marquis' case. Thereon, it becomes an interesting battle of wills, beliefs, strenghts and the human passion that governs us against the codes of religion and the rigid structure of 'law free from passion'. Controversial, provocative, witty and very very sexy but still wonderfully done (you have to see it for youself). It's a film that doesn't lecture or preach, a film that doesn't linger to much on sentimental pointless dialogues and keeps you thinking long after the film.
Also staring Kate Winslet as one of the ayslum's maid, and Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbe Coulier - both delivering powerful heart-wrenching performances. Definitely worth a watch. Mind - if you prefer watching these kinds of film - watch alone or without your parents! LOL!
Based upon the play by Doug Wright who also wrote the screenplay and directed by Philip Kaufman, it looks at one of humanity's deepest intimate legacies - the wanton desire to express oneself - and the laws that governs over humanity. Without any inhibitions, the film centers around the artistic yet licentuous writings of one 18th century french aristocrat, Marquis De Sade (wiki bio), and the few inhabitants of Charenton, an isane ayslum where the former eventually lived to his very last. Sent there to be shut and kept away from the public, Marquis, played beautifully and magnificently by Geoffrey Rush, lives a nonetheless liberated and comfortable life in the asylum where he continues to do the thing he was sent there for in the first place. Writing novels after novels of explicit sexual nature, the Abbe Coulmier, who oversees Charenton, tolerates this and even banters with the Marquis in the belief that it will help 'cure' the man from his impurity. Unbeknownst to Coulmier, Marquis' novels gets published to the general public and are massive successes (perhaps one of the first cults). A vice that swayed finely in between one that was tolerated or ignored. Eventually it became something that threatened the ideals of a nation.
Royer-Collard, played by Michael Caine, is an old physics doctor whose profession and speciality lies in the medieval art of torture in the name of 'curing' out the ineccessities or evils in a human being. Sent as an alternative decreed, he gets assigned on Marquis' case. Thereon, it becomes an interesting battle of wills, beliefs, strenghts and the human passion that governs us against the codes of religion and the rigid structure of 'law free from passion'. Controversial, provocative, witty and very very sexy but still wonderfully done (you have to see it for youself). It's a film that doesn't lecture or preach, a film that doesn't linger to much on sentimental pointless dialogues and keeps you thinking long after the film.
Also staring Kate Winslet as one of the ayslum's maid, and Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbe Coulier - both delivering powerful heart-wrenching performances. Definitely worth a watch. Mind - if you prefer watching these kinds of film - watch alone or without your parents! LOL!