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Quills is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life of the Marquis de Sade, the film re-imagines the last years of the Marquis's incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton. It stars Geoffrey Rush as de Sade, Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine "Maddie" LeClerc, Joaquin…
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En algún momento de nuestra historia o todavía presente, según como lo veas tú, el erotismo era considerado un acto merecedor de la pena de muerte. Se dice que, en su astucia, el hombre buscó formas de abolir las reglas y filtrar lo que, desde luego, casi todos conocemos en el acto sexual de la unión entre los géneros opuestos. Quills, a la que llamo por su nombre original dado a su larguísimo título en Latinoaméric…More
One of the great ironies of the Age of Enlightenment lies in the fact that among all the grand revolutionaries, thinkers, scientists and writers that marked that era the person most known to people today is Marquis de Sade (1740 – 1814), simply on the account of giving name to specific sexual perversion he had described in his erotic literature. De Sade’s life was at times as colourful as his writing and later becam…More
