Quills (US)
There are no bad words... only bad deeds
Certificate: R
Running Time: 124 mins
Retail Price: $29.98
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
Academy Award® winners Geoffrey Rush and Michael Caine join Oscar® nominees Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix in this provocative film filled with delicious desire and wicked wit.
Rush gives a tour-de-force performance as history`s most infamous sexual adventurer, the Marquis de Sade. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid (Winslet) smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum`s resident priest (Phoenix). The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor (Caine) tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch.
Special Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
3 Revealing Featurettes
Commentary by Screenwriter Doug Wright
Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailers & TV Spot
Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 French
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 English
Subtitle Tracks:
English
Spanish
CC: English
Directed By:
Philip Kaufman
Written By:
Doug Wright
Starring:
Patrick Malahide
Billie Whitelaw
Michael Caine
Joaquin Phoenix
Kate Winslet
Geoffrey Rush
Casting By:
Priscilla John
Donna Isaacson
Soundtrack By:
Stephen Warbeck
Director of Photography:
Rogier Stoffers
Editor:
Peter Boyle
Costume Designer:
Jacqueline West
Production Designer:
Martin Childs
Producer:
Nick Wechsler
Peter Kaufman
Mark Huffam
Julia Chasman
Executive Producer:
Rudulf Wiesmeier
Sandra Schulberg
Des McAnuff
Distributor:
Twentieth Century Fox
Your Opinions and Comments
The video transfer is excellent. There are no compression signs at all and the amount of detail is amazing. Even the smallest subtleties of the handwriting can be easily detected.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is good. While this is mostly a dialog based movie, several scenes do a great usage of the surrounds to deliver the harsh words of the Marquis through the asylum.
The menus are all beautifully animated with sound.
The extras include a commentary by the screenwriter, an extensive behind the scenes look, a still gallery and some historical facts about the characters.
Bottom line - an extremely powerful movie that manages to make a human being of the person who is called "the most infamous sexual adventurer". Highly recommended.