Quills | 2000

Posted by: The Vintage Projector | Filed under: Retro Reviews, Controversial Cinema

If you’ve never seen it, the premise sounds like a dark joke: Geoffrey Rush plays the Marquis de Sade, a real-life 18th-century aristocrat who wrote violent, pornographic novels from his cell in an insane asylum. He’s terrorized by a cruel, celibate doctor (Joaquin Phoenix) and protected by a kind, naive laundress (Kate Winslet). quills 2000

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But Quills isn’t just about dirty books. It’s a bonfire of an argument about censorship, creativity, and what happens when you try to lock away human desire. quills 2000