Quills

2000 • 124 minutes

About this movie

Quills imagines the final days of 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. Featuring a cast that includes Academy Award® winner Geoffrey Rush, Oscar nominee Kate Winslet, rising star Joaquin Phoenix, and Academy Award® winner Michael Caine, Quills playfully turns Sade's story into a sexy, sinister and shattering tale he himself might have written.

Ratings and reviews

Greatest dark romantic movie. In which it softly touch's on aspects of BDSM in a subtle way. Play it for your date and find out where their sexual tolerances are. This movie runs though several layers of intimacy, all just enough to open conversations with your lover

It's insane to me that some gave this movie a poor review. It's one of the best (in my opinion) 😐 To each their own :::Shrugs:::

Never saw a movie so great, and haven't seen one since this good. It captivated my interest f beginning to end!!!