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| | SPLICEDwire | "Quills" review (2000) |
 | | Starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Amelia Warner, Jane Menelaus, Stephen Moyer, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide, Tony Pritchard, Michael Jenn, Danny Babington, George Yiasoumi & Stephen Marcus |
 | | Most notably it neglects its female characters, declining to explore the source of Madeleine's obsession with the Marquis De Sade and failing to depict in the doctor's child-wife (beautiful, sensual and talented newcomer Amelia Warner) any psychological consequences of being forced to submit to a cruel man 50 years her senior night after night. |
 | | But while it does have its shortcomings and does romanticize Sade, "Quills" is every bit as vivid, torrid and zestful as anything the Marquis himself ever put to paper, and far more mesmerizing, skillful and intellectual. |
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